Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 15:55:30 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com, obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu Subject: Re: X for install Message-ID: <1462.820680930@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jan 1996 01:24:34 %2B1100." <199601031424.BAA09953@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >> The problem is not the general case, it's the worst case. I guess the > >> question is whether the worst case is worth worrying about... 8) > > >No, I doubt that. I expect the above loop to finish in < 3 sectors > >in 99.999% of the cases where it matters. > >(if the bios reports same geometry for two disks, then we don't care > >if they are identical, since it will not confuse us. We just need > >a signature for each bios-geometry :-) > > We need a unique signature for converting the BIOS boot drive number to > the FreeBSD root drive name. True, that would bring it to 99.99999% then... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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