From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 24 12:11:56 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A75437B401; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:11:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5647B43E4A; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:11:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9OJBrrF003178; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:11:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: John Baldwin Cc: Mark Valentine , Bruce Evans , Bakul Shah , Takahashi Yoshihiro , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libdisk Makefile chunk.c write_alpha_dis In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:10:29 EDT." Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 21:11:53 +0200 Message-ID: <3177.1035486713@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , John Baldwin writes: >How about Adaptec SCSI BIOS's and other "smart" BIOS's that look >at the MBR to guess what geometry you are using so that they can >adjust their BIOS to DTRT? These choke if you don't have a valid >MBR. MBR's are part of the i386 defacto architecture, deal. Well, only for disks you want to boot, but otherwise: spot on. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message