From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 30 15:25:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA21483 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 15:25:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21435 for ; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 15:25:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id AAA26572 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:24:53 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id AAA15362 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:24:52 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id XAA04909 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 30 Mar 1996 23:36:47 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603302236.XAA04909@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: fdisk and partition info To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 23:36:47 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603290257.TAA04368@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 28, 96 07:57:14 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Terry Lambert wrote: > "Dangerously dedidcated" is a misnomer. I've always found it annoying. > > What it means is that the second stage (BSD) boot is put in place of > the MBR. For WD1007 with > 1024 cylinders, this shoots down the > "use two partitions to make Bad144 happy with the boot disk" idea That's why it is called ``dangerously'' dedicated: it becomes dangerous for people who don't know what they are doing. > you put forth above (note: this should work, there's no technical > ambiguity preventing it from working, but the current code doesn't > handle that case). Nobody except Terry L. seems to be that much interested in improving support for rather obsolete controllers. Terry L. doesn't seem to be that much interested in modifying the bad144 code to do what he would like to see. The net effect is that nobody changes the bad144 code. > > > geometry [NB: the FReeBSD FDISK should always fill these ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > fields out correctly in any case). > > > > fdisk did always fill out these parameters correctly (or at least, it ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > No. I know for a fact that at lease some versions of DOS 2.11 and ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > prior did not fill out the 32 bit sector offset field correctly. > Leading Edge was one of the offenders here. Do you realize your problem? You claimed that FreeBSD fdisk should fill these fields correctly, i responded that it does, and you're arguing that some 100-year old DOS fdisk didn't. Sorry, i cannot follow you. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)