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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: disk handling program
To: phk@ref.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
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In-Reply-To: <199506160246.TAA03119@ref.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Jun 15, 95 07:46:28 pm
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> 
> There are two ways to get it right:
> 
> A:	Create a msdos partition, and delete it from FreeBSD.
> 
> B:	Boot freebsd with -v and look at the "bios-geometry" table
> 	it prints at the end, find the right one for this particular
> 	drive and use that.
> 

I tried this on a 2Gig Quantum.The funny thing is taht both ways 
yield different geometries :-(

-Guido