From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 25 00:53:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA15043 for current-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:53:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA15022 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:53:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA20864 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:52:57 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA10280 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:52:56 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id JAA16028 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:39:06 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611250839.JAA16028@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:39:06 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <306.848870190@critter.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Nov 24, 96 10:16:30 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > 2. Even if we did, I'd need a very dedicated tester with an NCR > controller to help me test it out on the only HW we know of that > fails. Hmm, you want me trashing my disk? ;-) I don't think that's as much of a problem. > 3. The unspecified German HeldenProgrammer that implemented the DD > mode clearly didn't bother with data-hiding, since he's fiddling > the internal libdisk variables in sysinstall rather than calling > Set_Bios_Geom() and a fitting "punishment" could be to "award" him > the task of making it work correctly :-) I really wonder who you might be referring to here. *grin* Well, if i knew better by the time i wrote that, i had done it... But i even had to write a man page for libdisk first, just to understand its concepts. So no surprise if i got something wrong. Unlike you, i don't appreciate hints delivered on bricks through windows, i also appreciate plain email telling me TRT. :-)) -- 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. ;-)