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Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 08:48:52 +0200
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To: current@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Subject: Re: Geometry weirdness with sysinstall/libdisk
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As Ollivier Robert wrote:

> > > Debug_Disk(sd2)  flags=0  bios_geom=13045/54/6 = 4226580
> > 
> > Certainly no slices present yet.
> 
> As you can see in disklabel output, it certainly _has_ slices, it used to
> be my boot drive !!!
> 
> # /dev/rsd2c:
> type: SCSI
> disk: IBM32160
> ...
> 8 partitions:

These are partitions, not slices.  You ought to learn the difference
by now...

-- 
cheers, J"org

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