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Date:      Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:44:55 -0400
From:      Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
Cc:        "Sean M." <sigma_zk@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HDD Geometry Issues
Message-ID:  <44A3E767.4030901@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <200606291359.k5TDxYQK021318@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
References:  <200606291359.k5TDxYQK021318@clunix.cl.msu.edu>

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Jerry McAllister wrote:
[ ... ]
>> If I use the entire disk with 'A', I see:
>>
>>   Offset  Size(ST)       End   Name  PType     Desc  Subtype
>>        0        63        62   ---      12   unused     0
>>       63  78156162  78156224  ad0s1      8  freebsd    165
>> 78156225      9135  78165359   ---      12   unused     0
> 
> Somebody who really knows about this stuff needs to write some
> verbiage for the handbook.

:-)  A guy called Dan Strick did, once, and I even translated it to SGML:

http://www.pkix.net/~chuck/doc/disk-geometry/article.html

-- 
-Chuck



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