From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 26 16:51:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA07975 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:51:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA07970 for ; Sun, 26 Jan 1997 16:50:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id BAA14006 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 01:50:51 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id BAA08268; Mon, 27 Jan 1997 01:29:18 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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 References: <199701262114.OAA02297@phaeton.artisoft.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701262114.OAA02297@phaeton.artisoft.com>; from Terry Lambert on Jan 26, 1997 14:14:45 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)