From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 13:21:33 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA28626 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 13:21:33 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA28611 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 13:21:22 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA14366 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 22:21:15 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA05231 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 22:21:15 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA04483 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 21:59:28 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508301959.VAA04483@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: pilot error on my part or feedback on the 2.1 snap To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 21:59:28 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508301113.EAA07934@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Aug 30, 95 04:13:22 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 635 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Someone should go kill: > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > > and remove the 1 bias in fdisk. Oooooh, this will confuse everybody who's already been slightly dealing with disk setups. It's an arguably ugly, but long-standing tradition to number the (physical) sectors on each track starting at one. ``Correcting'' this now and only in one of 20 million operating systems will violate the principle of least surprise. (Just my DM 0.02) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)