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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 1995 02:55:14 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        brian@mediacity.com, phk@ref.tfs.com
Cc:        bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org, me@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/scsi sd.c
Message-ID:  <199503261655.CAA27419@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>I'm still lost. Around 95/03/23 08:09:02 -current wouldn't bring up
>my f partition anymore.

That version didn't compensate for all of the historical bugs.

>It does however boot, mount a and e correctly and then pukes on f saying
>can't read sectors 16-31, not a BSD labelled drive.  My f partition is
>about 1.6GB.   The whole drive was used for FreeBSD.

The boot messages probably say that the FreeBSD slice has size 50000.
50000 is smaller than the whole drive, and only worked because of
inadequate error checking.

>I remember the install code talking about slicing and having to install
>slice 1 (0) as the FreeBSD slice.  Is there another level of slicing?

>How does one "slice" a drive?

Put a valid DOSpartition table on it.

Bruce



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