on 08/12/2010 01:11 Matthew Jacob said the following: > Geometry is still important. Trying booting a USB flash drive on all BIOS' > with > a 63/255 geometry instead of a 64/32 geometry.
Well, I don't know anything about USB... My point about modern HDDs still stands. > On 12/7/2010 2:14 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 08/12/2010 00:05 Matthew Jacob said the following: >>> >>> On 12/7/2010 1:54 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>>> on 07/12/2010 22:46 Bruce Cran said the following: >>>>> Don't warn if a partition appears not to be aligned on a track >>>>> boundary. >>>>> Modern disks use LBA and create a fake CHS geometry that doesn't have >>>>> any >>>>> relation to the on-disk layout of data. >>>> You repeated that statement, so I am picking on you :-) >>>> Can someone show me how/where exactly modern drives fakes CHS geometry? >>>> >>> cf cam_calc_geometry >> But that's not drive firmware code :-) >> It's us faking those parameters for ourselves for some unknown reason. >> Stupid us :-) But not the drives / manufacturers. >> -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
