AHCI and correct drive geometry?

[Josef Karthauser]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel O'Connor [mailto:doconnor at gsoft.com.au]
> Sent: 16 April 2008 14:33
> To: Jeremy Chadwick
> Cc: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org; stable at freebsd.org; Josef Karthauser
> Subject: Re: AHCI and correct drive geometry?
> 
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > > ie just ignore sysinstalls bleatings.
> >
> > Which begs the question -- why are we still spitting that warning
out
> > during the fdisk portion of sysinstall?
> 
> I guess the problem is that it is impossible to know what systems care
> about geometry and those that don't.

Granted.  Perhaps we just need to tone it down a bit then.  On my system
the warning appears when you first enter the fdisk editor, and then
every time you move the cursor it reappears.  It claims that it is
selecting a more sensible setting, but even so it still throws up loads
of warnings. Perhaps it only needs to be displayed once, or maybe the
'make up a suggested geometry setting' code is broken on modern systems.

Joe