From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 2:15:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF8C237BAA5 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 02:15:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA32712; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:14:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200006050914.LAA32712@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: 40gig IDE drives? In-Reply-To: from Jaye Mathisen at "Jun 2, 2000 10:35:04 am" To: mrcpu@internetcds.com (Jaye Mathisen) Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 11:14:28 +0200 (CEST) Cc: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), lists@security.za.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message