Re: sys/dev/isa/fd.c FDUNIT/FDTYPE

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 01:40:06PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> On 4 May 2011 12:50, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
> > The problem is that there might be some ports whose MAXPARTITIONS is still 8
> > and such ports can't use type 8.
> 
> Maybe this is time to update those remaining ports to 16... :)

Last I looked that was related to the offset of the disklabel into
the disk sector.
In some cases there isn't room for 16 partition records.

OTOH it is fubar that there isn't a number in the label that gives
it's size.

        David

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