Subject: Re: sysinstall changes
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
From: None <rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu>
List: tech-install
Date: 09/18/1998 09:29:11
rvb@sicily.odyssey.cs.cmu.edu writes:
> you would think that they take this info and do a "setcontroller" with
> it. Well, last time I tried to do a setcontroller (under Mach) with
> a BIOS geommetry from an LBA configured disk (say C/H/S 1024/64/63 vs
> a true geometry of 4096/16/63 (numbers sort of made up here)), the
> controller hung. So I don't believe we use these numbers for anything.
I didn't make this clear enough. When I put a break point on
setcontroller under NetBSD, it was never hit.