Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 21:21:33 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@xs4all.nl> Cc: Adrian Chadd <adrian@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@FreeBSD.org>, Stefan Farfeleder <stefanf@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r221972 - head/sys/geom/part Message-ID: <15051.1306185693@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 May 2011 23:09:15 %2B0200." <20110523210915.GA3024@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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In message <20110523210915.GA3024@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Wilko Bulte writes: >Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp, who wrote on Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:56:30AM +0000 .. >> This "requirement" dates back to "smart" BIOS'es and ST-506 drives >> which couldn't ask the drive for its geometry. > >WD1003 anyone? Hehe, I just finished unsoldering the flat CMOS RAM chip so I could reboot this computer: http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/dsc_8927.jpg But that is a WD1007 and an ESDI disk... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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