From owner-freebsd-scsi Mon Jan 26 10:40:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA02226 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:40:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA02190 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 1998 10:40:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@godzilla.zeta.org.au) Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) id FAA06363; Tue, 27 Jan 1998 05:30:21 +1100 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 05:30:21 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199801261830.FAA06363@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com Subject: Re: Minor annoyances with ZIP Plus Cc: scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Which is exactly the reason why we shouldn't be using the RG page at all. >Almost every SCSI adapter we support will not properly boot a system with >a physical geometry in the MBR and when you get a new disk drive it doesn't >have a valid MBR to override the dummy label. Sure it will. You just can't put a physical geometry in the MBR for almost any drive less than 8 years old :-). >> Summary: everything just works, but the lowest layer is too verbose and >> the highest layer (newfs) is too smart. > >If it just worked, we wouldn't get so many complaints about geometry >problems during installs. I meant low-level everythings, especially for Zip disks. Bruce