From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 6 12:44:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5457D37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:44:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C73943E42 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:44:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA6KiUB6007274; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 21:44:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GEOM/libdisk problem on pc98 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 06 Nov 2002 10:30:37 MST." <20021106.103037.130407616.imp@bsdimp.com> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 21:44:30 +0100 Message-ID: <7273.1036615470@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20021106.103037.130407616.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" writes: >In message: <99083.1036398850@critter.freebsd.dk> > Poul-Henning Kamp 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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message