From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Nov 8 01:00:33 1995 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA28151 for bugs-outgoing; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 01:00:33 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA28126 ; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 01:00:25 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA21088; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 10:00:09 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA14533; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 10:00:08 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA15199; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 09:40:00 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199511080840.JAA15199@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Bugs in/near installation 1104 SNAP To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 09:39:59 +0100 (MET) Cc: uhclem%nemesis@fw.ast.com, bugs@freebsd.org, phk@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <656.815776457@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 7, 95 12:34:17 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 973 Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > **** Warning: calculated sectors per cylinder (4000) disagrees with > > **** disk label (1008) Why is this `warning' still there? I've shot it in disklabel(8), and i know David has been pulling the fix into 2.1, too. > > Isn't this a totally horrible and inefficient way to manage a disk? > > Talk to Poul-Henning.. :-) We've been over this one before. Again, I > probably won't try to address this one. It's only inefficient for Real Disks (e.g. an ST251A ``Kalashnikov'' :). That raises the question: what are owners of such poor devices supposed to do in order to avoid the faked geometry? > > 5. /bin/797 is still broken. Probeonly can't find the "X" you > > supposedly just installed and fails. > > 797? You've lost me. What's a /bin/797? PR # bin/797? -- 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. ;-)