From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 24 10:05:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA02398 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:05:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA02381 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:05:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from whale.gu.kiev.ua ([194.93.190.4]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id FAA07935 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 05:28:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from creator.gu.kiev.ua (stesin@creator.gu.kiev.ua [194.93.190.3]) by whale.gu.kiev.ua (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA24212; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:22:59 +0200 Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:22:59 +0200 (EET) From: Andrew Stesin X-Sender: stesin@creator.gu.kiev.ua To: Joerg Wunsch cc: FreeBSD-current users Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure In-Reply-To: <199611240843.JAA09759@uriah.heep.sax.de> Message-ID: X-NCC-RegID: ua.gu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > > Btw., you can use whatever translation you want with `DD' mode, as > long as the number of sectors per track is >= 15. Obviously, this > wasn't the case for this (erroneous) 1/1 translation, but all `real > world' translations should fit. That's one of the reasons why i'm > advocating for `DD` that much; you'll soon forget the word `geometry'. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That's what already happened to me -- even with IDE disks (in the latter case you should only watch out that Cyls. in CMOS are < 1024, and "DD" mode just works also). > ;-) Hey, no jokes! :-) > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) > -- Best, Andrew Stesin nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE