From owner-cvs-all Mon Aug 23 19:58:43 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (oreilly145.oreilly.mbaynet.com [206.55.242.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C76C14F3C; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:58:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00852; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:51:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908240251.TAA00852@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Bruce Evans , imp@village.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/i386/fdisk fdisk.8 fdisk.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:50:51 +0200." <10767.935434251@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 19:51:19 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > In message <199908231845.EAA01679@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: > > >These problems mean that "auto" on a slice can't be implemented properly > >without solving the old problem of mapping drives to BIOS drive numbers > >so that the table of BIOS geometries can be used. > > Does anyone know if the average PnP table is any help in this ? No; the PnP table doesn't reflect installed disks, and anyway has no way of knowing what our device search order is. The only disk for which geometry issues matter is the boot volume. Ideally we would just use LBA mode and forget all this crap about "geometry" but we're not quite ready for that yet. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message