Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 10:11:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de (Julian Howard Stacey) Cc: aflundi@sandia.gov, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0.5-Alpha Installation Message-ID: <199506041711.KAA17293@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199506031508.RAA28440@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> from "Julian Howard Stacey" at Jun 3, 95 05:08:34 pm
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> > How hard would it be to add a > > probe command to the install program that would take a user > > provided absolute sector number (or a cyl/hd/sec number set), > > read that sector and return a read success or failure status. > > That way a user could discover how big their disk really is, > > then from that fake up some cyl/hd/sec values to get as close > > as possible to that max abs sector value. > > The way I sized my disks (using 386bsd or mach way back when) > was to put on a disklable much bigger than possible, > then do a dd if=raw_device of=/dev/null, then take the count & feed it back > to edit a new entry for /etc/disktab I thought of this, but abandoned it because it may hang on some ESDI drives :-( 2.1 maybe. -- Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'
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