From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 5 0:11:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B3B37B417 for ; Wed, 5 Dec 2001 00:11:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from pool0055.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.55] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16BX9f-0001A0-00; Wed, 05 Dec 2001 00:11:47 -0800 Message-ID: <3C0DD6CB.F76666D0@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2001 00:11:55 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: marking disks References: <20011204175626.A21463@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 That would let me detect uninitalized drives as well as out of date 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