From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 26 1:51:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA34637B414 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 01:51:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from insomnia.spc.org (insomnia.spc.org [195.224.94.183]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2563F43E4A for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 01:51:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bms@insomnia.spc.org) Received: (qmail 21417 invoked by uid 1031); 26 Sep 2002 08:47:33 -0000 Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:47:33 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Josef Karthauser Cc: Julian Elischer , Mark Santcroos , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary Message-ID: <20020926084733.GA26352@spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Bruce M Simpson , Josef Karthauser , Julian Elischer , Mark Santcroos , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020925173453.GA1347@laptop.6bone.nl> <20020925203930.GB25571@genius.tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020925203930.GB25571@genius.tao.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:39:30PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: > I thought that we hacked around this in the linuxulator 18 months ago > by transparently converting block calls into character calls behind the > scenes. Either this has been removed or something else is wrong. This isn't the case for me on -STABLE. I had to create block devices for raw disks to work. BMS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message