From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 25 09:15:21 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id JAA01963 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 09:15:21 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA01957 for ; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 09:15:19 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id HAA25244; Wed, 25 Jan 1995 07:43:15 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199501251543.HAA25244@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: More serial console stuff... To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Wed, 25 Jan 1995 07:43:14 -0800 (PST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, terry@cs.weber.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com In-Reply-To: <199501250607.RAA18320@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jan 25, 95 05:07:52 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 497 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > There is no standard way to decide how the drives are mapped. We're > not going to be able to decide without asking the user. Only the bruteforce mode: In bootblock: make table of drive-id geometry checksum of sector #200 checksum of sector #400 checksum of sector #600 In kernel find entry in table where checksums match... -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. FreeBSD has, until now, not one single time had an undetected error. :-)