Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 11:13:13 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, erich@uruk.org, terry@lambert.org, dutchman@spase.nl, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Glitch in install procedure. Message-ID: <199605221813.LAA04492@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <5353.832756963@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at May 22, 96 02:22:43 am
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> Well, I added the geometry warning by popular request, I can just as > easily remove it for the same reason. :-) > > Is there general agreement that the geometry warning is bogus? It's bogus unless the kernel knows the per drive geometry so it can know when to warn. THe kernel knows the per drive ID geometry, but it does not have a mapping of drive ID to special device, making the information practically useless. The warning isn't (can't be) very effective under those circumstances. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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