From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 10 5:50:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2416037B416 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 05:50:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id OAA15175 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:50:32 +0100 (CET) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBADKC775946 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:20:12 +0100 (MET) (envelope-from j) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:20:11 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_diskmbr.c Message-ID: <20011210142011.A75760@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch Mail-Followup-To: Joerg Wunsch , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011209102129.F97235@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20011210004350.6703C3810@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200112092200.fB9M0J660085@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20011210005928.9538A3810@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20011210091103.M97235@uriah.heep.sax.de> <3C1488CF.410BE633@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C1488CF.410BE633@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:05:03AM -0800 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 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Terry Lambert wrote: > Joerg Wunsch wrote: > > /The/ major advantage of DD mode was that all BIOSes (so far :) at > > least agree on how to access block 0 and the adjacent blocks, so > > starting our own system there makes those disks portable. > I guarantee you that there are a number of controllers which have > different ideas of how to do soft sector sparing _at the controller > level_ rather than at the drive level. We have dropped support for ESDI controllers long since. :-) Seriously, all the disks we are supporting these days do bad block replacement at the drive level. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message