From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 19 12:11:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0794106566B; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:11:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 416658FC0A; Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:11:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-67-45.lns10.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.67.45]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m3JCAiqS094670 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:41:00 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Josef Karthauser" Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:18:20 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200804162303.28982.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804181018.25654.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -0.714 () BAYES_00,DATE_IN_PAST_24_48,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Jeremy Chadwick , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:11:48 -0000 On Thu, 17 Apr 2008, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > I guess the problem is that it is impossible to know what systems > > care about geometry and those that don't. > > Granted. Perhaps we just need to tone it down a bit then. On my > system the warning appears when you first enter the fdisk editor, and > then every time you move the cursor it reappears. It claims that it > is selecting a more sensible setting, but even so it still throws up > loads of warnings. Perhaps it only needs to be displayed once, or > maybe the 'make up a suggested geometry setting' code is broken on > modern systems. Hmm that does seem very aggressive (and broken). I had a look at the code and it should only print it each time you enter the fdisk screen. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C