Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:37:49 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure Message-ID: <410.848871469@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:33:35 PST." <199611242133.NAA00698@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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>> >Or we could get Poul-Henning to DTRT with libdisk - that would >> >be a concept, and even the correct place to handle it. :-) >> >> I actually looked at this, and there are some comments in order: >> >> 1. I'm still not sure we know what TRT is. Although the MB/64hd/32sect >> sounds like the best bet to me. > >I agree on the now knowing for sure what TRT is, I kinda liked the >suggestion of defaulting to 0/0/0 and forcing the user to enter values, >atleast that stops the X/1/1 problem dead in its track. Looking at the code the X/1/1 seems very deliberate and concious. I wonder who did that and why ? >> 2. Even if we did, I'd need a very dedicated tester with an NCR >> controller to help me test it out on the only HW we know of that >> fails. > >The NCR deals just fine with MB/64h/32s, I have 5 systems here running >that way with disk sizes running from 500MB to 4.5G, all on NCR, all >using MB/64/32. Yeah, but I need to have somebody test the sysinstall disk nontheless, and I seem to recall that you have never been converted to the new testament ? :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.
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