Quoting Poul-Henning Kamp, who wrote on Mon, May 23, 2011 at 06:56:30AM +0000 .. > In message <4dd9f0a3....@freebsd.org>, "Andrey V. Elsukov" writes: > > >There is another opinion: > >http://www.boot-us.com/gloss02.htm > > > >"There is the convention that partitions should always start and end on *= > >cylinder boundaries*." > > It is actually more weird than that: > > The rule is that the starting or ending head of one of the four > slices represent the number of heads used to access the drive, and > ditto for sectors. > > This "requirement" dates back to "smart" BIOS'es and ST-506 drives > which couldn't ask the drive for its geometry.
WD1003 anyone? Wilko _______________________________________________ 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"
