From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 15 16:49:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA12108 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 16:49:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA12090 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 16:49:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com) Received: (from gibbs@localhost) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.8.8/8.7.3) id RAA07096; Sun, 15 Mar 1998 17:46:13 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 17:46:13 -0700 (MST) From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Message-Id: <199803160046.RAA07096@narnia.plutotech.com> To: Joerg Wunsch cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *HEADS UP* Correction to previous postings. Newsgroups: pluto.freebsd.current In-Reply-To: <199803090852.AAA14131@dingo.cdrom.com> <19980313185105.21172@nuxi.com> <19980315201639.23917@uriah.heep.sax.de> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-971204 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <19980315201639.23917@uriah.heep.sax.de> you wrote: > > All this mess > started with the advent of the slice code in FreeBSD 2.0.5, and with > the suggestion ``If you fail to install FreeBSD because of geometry > problems, then well, install a small DOS partition first.'' That's > simply plain unacceptable (and looks very unprofessional, too), and > the intention behind my ``dangerously dedicated'' mode sysinstall > changes were simply to support the class of people who Just Don't Care > about any f*****ing fdisk table at all (since they don't need it, all > they need is a disklabel). It's my hope that with the adoption of CAM, the geometry problems will be a thing of the past. CAM queries the controller driver that is talking to the disk for the proper translated geometry and provides this in the label indead of the bogus physical geometry infromation from mode page 4. This should be sufficient for fdisk and friends to get the geometry right, but more testing is needed to see if other portions of the system need to be told to accept this geometry. > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- Justin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message