From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 24 13:16:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA12319 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:16:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA12307; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:16:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id WAA00308; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:16:30 +0100 (MET) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:05:55 PST." <2962.848862355@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:16:30 +0100 Message-ID: <306.848870190@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <2962.848862355@time.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >> X/64/32 is okay. Basically, Jordan, the entire message is a big >> bogosity at all. I've always been annoyed by it. Why not leave it >> alone in the DD case? (NB: i _don't_ advocate for the latter change >> for 2.2, but for 3.0-current.) > >Or we could get Poul-Henning to DTRT with libdisk - that would >be a concept, and even the correct place to handle it. :-) I actually looked at this, and there are some comments in order: 1. I'm still not sure we know what TRT is. Although the MB/64hd/32sect sounds like the best bet to me. 2. Even if we did, I'd need a very dedicated tester with an NCR controller to help me test it out on the only HW we know of that fails. 3. The unspecified German HeldenProgrammer that implemented the DD mode clearly didn't bother with data-hiding, since he's fiddling the internal libdisk variables in sysinstall rather than calling Set_Bios_Geom() and a fitting "punishment" could be to "award" him the task of making it work correctly :-) How's that ? :-) -- 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.