From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 3 04:19:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id EAA03053 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 04:19:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA03041 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 04:19:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA07603; Wed, 3 Jan 1996 22:50:42 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601031220.WAA07603@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: X for install To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 22:50:41 +1030 (CST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu In-Reply-To: <1078.820666428@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jan 3, 96 11:53:48 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Poul-Henning Kamp stands accused of saying: > > Erm, the BIOS geometry problem is entirely in software, and "probing" of > > the BIOS geometry has already been implemented by someone named phk :-). > > (The problem is that association of BIOS disk numbers with FreeBSD > > disk names isn't really implemented.) > > And cannot be done reliably, unless you can actually read a couple > of sectors using the bios :-) THe problem is not reading the sectors, but which sectors to read. 0 is obviously a good choice, but 1..(s-1) are boring, and from there in it's a tough call. There are a few "better" ways perhaps to look for more unique things, but you'll still be screwed by two identical disks with identical contents 8( > Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[