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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