From owner-cvs-all Mon Aug 23 20:35:53 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 CCE3014CB9; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:35:50 -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 UAA01153; Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:27:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908240327.UAA01153@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh Cc: 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 21:22:16 MDT." <199908240322.VAA43728@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:27:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > In message <199908240251.TAA00852@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : 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. > > Are you talking about after we boot, or for the bootblocks? I didn't > think the older bioses supported LBA mode... That's what I meant by "not ready 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