Date: Sun, 6 Jul 1997 18:47:11 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSd Chat list) Cc: francisco@natserv.com (Francisco Reyes) Subject: Re: I will sue FreeBSD project (..attempt at a joke..) Message-ID: <19970706184711.RL39115@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199707061607.MAA03018@federation.addy.com>; from Francisco Reyes on Jul 6, 1997 12:05:26 -0400 References: <199707061607.MAA03018@federation.addy.com>
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As Francisco Reyes wrote: > After having problems with what I think is an incorrect Geometry I was > trying things with Pfdisk and ended up wiping up wiping out my entire > HD. > > I am thinking on suing the FreeBSD project (again this is just a > --joke--). The joke aside, better sue the inventors of PCs. While all the disks have been block-addressed internally for years now, the PC is still of the dreadful opinion it would need a ``geometry'' for handling a disk. That's the root of all evil (along with all the consequences of this geometry, like a stumpled BIOS, an fdisk table with two redundant specifications of where a slice starts and ends, etc.) Perhaps people now understand why i love the ``dangerously dedicated'' mode... it doesn't care much for anything like a ``geometry''. -- 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. ;-)
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