Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:38:50 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386/1893: partition tables not processed correctly to guess geometry Message-ID: <18717.846412730@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Oct 1996 20:00:02 MST." <199610270300.UAA29867@freefall.freebsd.org>
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> > We do not know what the full impact of this bug is. Is this > > It's fairly small. max_ncyls is always wrong for drives with more > than 1024 cylinders, so you have to enter the number of cylinders > manually in sysinstall etc. if the drive doesn't report its size. Unless, it is one of those where we >do< use the BIOS geometry (ST-506). Also, sysinstall (libdisk actually) will calculate the number of cylinders from secperunit/heads/sect_per_track rather than trust the partition table. -- 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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