Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 09:17:51 +1030 (CST) From: michael smith <miff@spam.frisbee.net.au> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: location of bad144 table Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960116091553.20117C-100000@lovely> In-Reply-To: <199601151922.GAA06374@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Bruce Evans wrote: > In FreeBSD >2.0.5., the end of the disk (according to d_secperunit) is > used in all places (except in the bad144 man page :-(). This is > not fully compatible with the DEC standard 144, but the "last track" > is too slippery to use if the geometry is translated or the number > of sectors/track is variable. It would appear that the bad144 program still uses the 'c' partition, or divines the end of the disk in a fashion different from the kernel code. At least, bad144 runs without a slew of error messages, whilst attempting to read the disklabel once bad144 has been run results in much unhappiness. > Bruce Mike
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