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From: bob@obiwan.uucp (Bob Willcox)
Subject: Re: users - not entirely clear on the concept
References: <Cr8EBv.BDM@hippo.ru.ac.za> <2tf7l7$2jk@s069.infonet.net> <RSANDERS.94Jun12183500@hrothgar.mindspring.com> <2tsqc4INNgdc@bonnie.sax.de>
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin TX
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 1994 13:37:16 GMT
Message-ID: <CrwLuI.644@obiwan.uucp>
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In article <2tsqc4INNgdc@bonnie.sax.de>, J Wunsch <j@uriah.sax.de> wrote:
>rsanders@mindspring.com (Robert Sanders) writes:
>
>>Linux simply asks the BIOS at boottime (while still in 16-bit real
>>mode) for the disk geometry, and then believes it. ...
>
>What would Linux have done in this situation where the SCSI disk cannot
>be reported by any BIOS at all?
To carry this a bit further, what would Linux do for the other 7
of my 9 SCSI drives on this system? On all but my first drive, I
use the geometry as reported by the SCSI device probes at boot up
time (for the first one, I chose the common ficticious 64/32/1024
geometry that the controller reports to DOS). (In reflection, I
probably wouldn't have had to do that, since this system only has
FreeBSD on it.)
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