Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 23:25:09 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: "Jeremy Chadwick" <koitsu@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why does sysinstall still limits cylinders to 65535? Message-ID: <e71790db0806031925k541c8a4dlecdcef0ad036150@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080526062417.GA61084@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <e71790db0805251952uffce552ycaf7941eb81a8601@mail.gmail.com> <20080526062417.GA61084@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 3:24 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:52:06PM -0300, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: >> I have been struglling with sysinstall, attempting to make it handle >> the geometry of some large SATA drives. After a lot of effort I >> decided to stop suffering and modified the program in order to >> circumvent the outdated limit of 65535 cylinders (see attached patch). >> I'm thinking about submitting a PR with a change request but I'd like >> to get some additional opinions first. I did not test it in "batch" >> mode, so it would be great if any kind soul did this. > > Carlos, bottom line is to simply ignore the geometry warning you see. > > For others... > > This is just added evidence that the humongous warning spit out during > sysinstall's fdisk is confusing users (many taking it very seriously > when there's really no problem at all). > > I think this is the third time someone's brought this up in the past > couple months... Sorry if I sound annoying but nobody else answered. I still believe that something must be done to fix sysinstall, so I'm asking you (where "you" means the "others" in Jeremy's message) to provide some additional feedback. Please fill-in the dots in one or more of the following options: 1. We can not make such change sysinstall because ... 2. Your patch is not correct/sufficient. I would be better if ... 3. Please submit a PR. It will momentarily be reviewed by ... 4. Give up. Nobody here cares about this issue. Thanks in advance. -- Carlos A. M. dos Santos
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