Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 15:24:28 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@ref.tfs.com Cc: dufault@hda.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, pst@Shockwave.COM Subject: Re: kern/248: scbus attach/probe printf inconsistency Message-ID: <199503190524.PAA07244@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> >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
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