Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:18:20 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: "Josef Karthauser" <joe.karthauser@geomerics.com> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry? Message-ID: <200804181018.25654.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <F5114451B5F49649A9337243D4F8E46909C8DFDB@THHS2EXBE1X.hostedservice2.net> References: <F5114451B5F49649A9337243D4F8E46909C472F7@THHS2EXBE1X.hostedservice2.net> <200804162303.28982.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <F5114451B5F49649A9337243D4F8E46909C8DFDB@THHS2EXBE1X.hostedservice2.net>
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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
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