Re: [ros-dev] HDD Geometry switch

[Magnus Johnsson]

"No drama please!" - Aleksey Bragin


2011/11/28 Ged Murphy <gedmurphy.maillists(a)gmail.com>om>:
>   Do you have to work at being this rude and
> disrespectful or does it just
>  come naturally to you?
>  This is the a great example of why the reactos forums are such a nasty place
>  to visit.
>  You must be quite proud.
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: ros-dev-bounces(a)reactos.org [mailto:[e-mail]] On
>  Behalf Of caemyr(a)myopera.com
>  Sent: 27 November 2011 23:07
>  To: ReactOS Development List
>  Subject: Re: [ros-dev] HDD Geometry switch
>
>  Also, knowing the consequences, did you bother to issue any message to our
>  community, to inform them about this?? Not every ReactOS user is subsribed
>  to ros-dev.
>
>  Ah wait... you ignored that as well. You will let others handle the problem
>  as usual.
>
>  I have 5 sets for testing, 2 real hardware and 3 vm. Each one with two
>  partitions, one for ros and other for all the installers and drivers.
>
>  So now, whenever i cross the border of this change, i will have to wipe all,
>  recreate the partitions and copy the stuff back? It will take no less than
>  half an hour for VM. On real hardware, just the copying can take up to 1
>  hour.
>
>  Do you value your time available to spend on ReactOS? Then perhaps you could
>  also think about others as well?
>
>  On Sunday, November 27, 2011 4:48 PM, "Eric Kohl"
> <eric.kohl(a)t-online.de>
>  wrote:
> >   caemyr(a)myopera.com wrote:
> >  > Is the new geometry backward-compatible? If i recreate the partitions, 
>  will
> they be visible when i regress test revisions before 54511?
> > >   
> >  This is a one-way road. If you want to test older revisions, you must
> >  delete and re-create partitions again.
> >
> >
> >  Regards
> >  Eric
> >
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>  --
>  With best regards
>  Caemyr
>
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