Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 11:24:36 +0000 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com, bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changes to FreeBSD kernel to keep "green" drives on Message-ID: <2777.828444276@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 1996 20:40:15 %2B1000." <199604021040.UAA08815@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> >Actually The thing I did was an utterly disgusting hack "sleep-hack" that > >assumes that if the disk went to sleep, it will wake up with a different > >geometry. (workaround for a BIOS-bug). > > Workaround for a FreeBSD bug? No, a BIOS-bug. > I think the usual way out of full sleep > mode is to do a soft reset, and it's reasonable for that to set the > geometry to the default. yes, but the APM BIOS-oid sets a different, and pretty badly wrong geometry, so I have to reset the drives default geometry. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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