From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 18 21:29:36 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA03291 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 21:29:36 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA03276 for ; Sat, 18 Mar 1995 21:29:23 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id PAA07244; Sun, 19 Mar 1995 15:24:28 +1000 Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 15:24:28 +1000 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199503190524.PAA07244@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@ref.tfs.com Subject: Re: kern/248: scbus attach/probe printf inconsistency Cc: dufault@hda.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, pst@Shockwave.COM Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >Bruce, it doesn't confuse me, but I have got too many emails of the type >> >> > I (made the following mistake) then I thought, Hmm, lets try the >> > geometry they print at boot, and now my MSDOS is gone.. >> >> This happens because fdisk/disklabel are confused. It shouldn't be possible >> to easily clobber a foreign partition. >> >This happens because we print bogus information. This happens because fdisk/disklabel are confused. They have problems finding the correct information and don't do any consistency checking. An error transcribing non-bogus information would cause much the same problem as bogus information. Bruce