bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: the tracking info is dependant on the filesystem It is not. i beg to differ ... different fs has different disk structure to tune itself for various things to make it better or worst than other fs It is used by the uController on

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya mike Hi yourself. Glad to meet you. I hope this message doesn't seem pugnacious. It isn't intended to be. But your response seems to me to contain some factual and comprehensional errors. Since this is a technical forum, I don't feel comfortable allowing what I percieve

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: You are obviously smart and intelligent, but you weren't THERE. I was. i been playing with them removable 14 disk platters and stripping um and reassemble um and stick it back into the dg/dec/si washing machines the disk controller on the

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] Yes, I'm talking about servo data, which cannot be seen by dd or any other normal (or even driver level) accesses. i think we;re talking about the different kidns of servo data ... created/maintained at different

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: :-) you keep going to filesytem No, you do. i see we're assumign too many stuff .. i never once said aything but servo info being the same as fs info .. etc..etc am not talking about the head alignment and gaps or anything But I