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Date:      Tue, 16 Jan 1996 16:49:09 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au, miff@spam.frisbee.net.au
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: location of bad144 table
Message-ID:  <199601160549.QAA02316@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>It would appear that the bad144 program still uses the 'c' partition, or

No.

>divines the end of the disk in a fashion different from the kernel code.

Maybe.  It attempts to screw up by always reading the label directly off
the disk (like the -r option to disklabel), but this is supposed to be
handled by modifying the label sector as it is read and written.

>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.
	     ^^^^^^^^^ bad sector table?

Can bad144 read what it wrote?

Bruce



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