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> >(if the bios reports same geometry for two disks, then we don't care
> >if they are identical, since it will not confuse us.  We just need
> >a signature for each bios-geometry :-)
> 
> We need a unique signature for converting the BIOS boot drive number to
> the FreeBSD root drive name.

You need it for all drives:

dos_newfs
dos_mount
dos_fsck
...


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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