Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 01:29:17 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk headache Message-ID: <Mutt.19970127012917.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199701262114.OAA02297@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 26, 1997 14:14:45 -0700 References: <Mutt.19970126104601.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199701262114.OAA02297@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > > . The number of BIOS geometry constraints to care for reduces drastic- > > ally, so you can usually (*) ignore any geometry issues. > This is a bogus argument based on the assumption that we wouldn't put > an absolute sector address in the partition entry like we should so > a sector-offset based driver (BSD) could still use the partition > table entry without multiplying out C/H/S values. > > Note that we should put the entry there for our parttition: we should > not rely on a DOS tool to do it correctly for us. p.s.: You apparently don't understand what i'm writing about. There's no DOS tool ever involved in DD mode (and little red daemons will jump out of the disk if you ever come close to those disks with some DOS tool at all :-). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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