Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 21:44:30 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GEOM/libdisk problem on pc98 Message-ID: <7273.1036615470@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:30:37 MST." <20021106.103037.130407616.imp@bsdimp.com>
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In message <20021106.103037.130407616.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes:
>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.
The stuff you sent me was absolutely a big help, despite the fact that
only one or two of the disk-images people have sent me were actually
in compliance with that document, at least it validated what I did
on those.
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