From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 30 18:19:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA02777 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 18:19:09 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA02772 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 18:19:04 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id MAA02834; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 12:45:50 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510310215.MAA02834@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: boot disk.... To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 12:45:49 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, terry@lambert.org, lenzi@cwbone.bsi.com.br, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199510301909.MAA06141@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 30, 95 12:09:15 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1367 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > Why? We don't *have* to insist that we be able to boot from an 'a' slice > after 1024, do we? That's a requirement you've tacked on. It's becoming a very common requirement 8( > This is an issue of where a drive media perfection layer belongs, and > how it can be implemented. I believe bad144 is in the wrong abstract > location -- which make bad144 an invalid counter argument. Media perfection should be a function of the media; ie. the disk itself. System software should not be forced to make those sort of translations; it's unfortunate that old media don't have the resources required 8( > I think the issues you are addressing are more "old disk" than "new disk" > related. The IDE problems that we are seeing are more the result of Agreed; although the reasoning is simply that 'new disk' can only be guaranteed to behave like 'old disk', because there are no usable standards for 'new disk' as yet 8( > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[