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Date:      Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:47:33 +0100
From:      Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary
Message-ID:  <20020926084733.GA26352@spc.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020925203930.GB25571@genius.tao.org.uk>
References:  <20020925173453.GA1347@laptop.6bone.nl> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0209251114130.46717-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20020925203930.GB25571@genius.tao.org.uk>

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On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 09:39:30PM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> I thought that we hacked around this in the linuxulator 18 months ago
> by transparently converting block calls into character calls behind the
> scenes.  Either this has been removed or something else is wrong.

This isn't the case for me on -STABLE. I had to create block devices for
raw disks to work.

BMS

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