From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 24 13:37:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA13277 for current-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:37:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com ([140.145.230.177]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA13252; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:37:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.tfs.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.8.2/8.8.2) with ESMTP id WAA00412; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:37:49 +0100 (MET) To: "Rodney W. Grimes" cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.2-ALPHA install failure In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:33:35 PST." <199611242133.NAA00698@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:37:49 +0100 Message-ID: <410.848871469@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >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.