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Date:      Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:14:28 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
To:        mrcpu@internetcds.com (Jaye Mathisen)
Cc:        grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), lists@security.za.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 40gig IDE drives?
Message-ID:  <200006050914.LAA32712@freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006021033080.26845-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> from Jaye Mathisen at "Jun 2, 2000 10:35:04 am"

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It seems Jaye Mathisen wrote:
> 
> Yeah, that was my though.  I left sectors free at the front, but that
> wasn't it.  

It uses the last sectors IIRC its been some time since I looked at it..

> Soren was looking at seeing if there was some way to read the promise
> label/record keeping, and turn that into a vinum setup somehow, so it
> would be relatively transparent.  But I don't think he could get the docs
> from Promise, or perhaps just got busy.

Promise wont tell the format of the data, thats "proprietary info" that
they wont disclose. Getting info out of Promise isn't easy, they have
_a lot_ to learn in that department...

-Søren


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