Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 00:11:55 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: marking disks Message-ID: <3C0DD6CB.F76666D0@mindspring.com> References: <20011204175626.A21463@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Brooks Davis wrote: > What I'd been thinking was that I could write a magic string over the > beginning of the MBR since I'm never going to try and boot these disks. > That would let me detect uninitalized drives as well as out of date > partitioning schemes. Are there any problems to look out for with > this solution? Does anyone know of a better one? It would be easiest for you to create a partition table on the disk, and steal a table entry with a "magic" partition type to indicate that either the LBA or CHS data was actually version or type information, etc.. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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