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From: Soeren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
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Subject: Re: GEOM/libdisk problem on pc98
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To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 18:33:25 +0100 (CET)
Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG
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It seems M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <99083.1036398850@critter.freebsd.dk>
>             Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> writes:
> : In message <20021104.170202.85350015.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org>, Takahashi Yoshihiro 
> : writes:
> : >The test program for libdisk is a failure in pc98 disks.
> : >
> : >I wonder at why pc98 disks don't have their type ('ty') in the result
> : >of kern.geom.conftxt, but i386 disks have.
> : 
> : I still have practically no documentation of the PC98 format and no
> : hardware I can test on, so I am pretty unable to do anything sane.
> 
> I have translated some Japanese docs that I was able to find, through
> the kind assistance of kawanobe-san.  I took a trip to the local
> technical library, but the articles he pointed me at were unavailable.
> I'll be happy to continue to translate docs that help explain the
> format.

Could you mail me a copy as well please ?
It seems that GEOM works on PC98 with the ATA driver, but I'm still
having stability problems so they are not in -current yet...

-Søren

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