Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: :-) > > you keep going to filesytem > > No, you do. i see we're assumign too many stuff .. i never once said aything but servo info being the same as fs info .. etc..etc > > am not talking about the head alignment and gaps or anything > > B

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] Yes, I'm talking about servo data, which cannot be seen by dd or any other normal (or even driver level) accesses. i think we;re talking about the different kidns of servo data ... created/maintained at different lev

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > You are obviously smart > and intelligent, but you weren't THERE. I was. i been playing with them removable 14" disk platters and stripping um and reassemble um and stick it back into the dg/dec/si washing machines > > the disk controller on th

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya mike Hi yourself. Glad to meet you. I hope this message doesn't seem pugnacious. It isn't intended to be. But your response seems to me to contain some factual and comprehensional errors. Since this is a technical forum, I don't feel comfortable allowing what I percieve