Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 04:52:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Joerg Wunsch <joerg@FreeBSD.ORG> To: brennan@merk.com, joerg@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: misc/4756 Message-ID: <199710181152.EAA21800@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Synopsis: Weird disk geometry selected in "custom" installation State-Changed-From-To: open-closed State-Changed-By: joerg State-Changed-When: Sat Oct 18 13:50:12 MEST 1997 State-Changed-Why: So-called `real' geometries (*) are irrelevant to FreeBSD's installation program; the BIOS geometry is relevant, and what you're presenting as your `bogus' figures looks awfully reasonable as a BIOS geometry, much unlike the other figures. (*) Real geometries of today's disks cannot be expressed with a uniform number of sectors per track, they are something like ``2100 cylinders, 15 heads, and between 50 and 100 sectors per track'' (for example).
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