From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 17 09:23:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E2F106564A; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:23:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe.karthauser@geomerics.com) Received: from mail68.messagelabs.com (mail68.messagelabs.com [193.109.255.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 827C78FC14; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:23:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe.karthauser@geomerics.com) X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: joe.karthauser@geomerics.com X-Msg-Ref: server-10.tower-68.messagelabs.com!1208424200!89290804!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.12.14.2; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [217.28.130.38] Received: (qmail 3412 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2008 09:23:20 -0000 Received: from hostedexchange.hostedservice.com (HELO hostedexchange.hostedservice.com) (217.28.130.38) by server-10.tower-68.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 17 Apr 2008 09:23:20 -0000 Received: from THHS2EXBE1X.hostedservice2.net ([192.168.16.21]) by hostedexchange.hostedservice.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:23:48 +0100 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:22:36 +0100 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200804162303.28982.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: AHCI and correct drive geometry? Thread-Index: AcifxpbW9mxDFD9gTCChPH3q5ivXVQApcYLw References: <200804162146.24665.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20080416122944.GA29115@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <200804162303.28982.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> From: "Josef Karthauser" To: "Daniel O'Connor" , "Jeremy Chadwick" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 17 Apr 2008 09:23:48.0610 (UTC) FILETIME=[BE163E20:01C8A06C] Cc: stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: AHCI and correct drive geometry? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:23:23 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel O'Connor [mailto:doconnor@gsoft.com.au] > Sent: 16 April 2008 14:33 > To: Jeremy Chadwick > Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; stable@freebsd.org; Josef Karthauser > Subject: Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry? >=20 > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > ie just ignore sysinstalls bleatings. > > > > Which begs the question -- why are we still spitting that warning out > > during the fdisk portion of sysinstall? >=20 > I guess the problem is that it is impossible to know what systems care > about geometry and those that don't. Granted. Perhaps we just need to tone it down a bit then. On my system the warning appears when you first enter the fdisk editor, and then every time you move the cursor it reappears. It claims that it is selecting a more sensible setting, but even so it still throws up loads of warnings. Perhaps it only needs to be displayed once, or maybe the 'make up a suggested geometry setting' code is broken on modern systems. Joe