Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 16:51:34 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do you have Ontrack Disk manager? Message-ID: <342EED86.1CFBAE39@whistle.com> References: <342EE53C.59E2B600@whistle.com>
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Julian Elischer wrote: > > can anyone who has this isntalled, send me copies of the block 0 > of their disk, and a description of the disk's geometry > as seen by the BIOS and by BSD..? just the output of 'fdisk' will do. OR > > Does anyone know the answers to the folowing questions? (BDE?) > 1/ does ontrack just use '63' as the start of it's section or does > it use the start of the 2nd cylinder? errr. I mean 2nd track > 2/ does it write teh start location of it's bit in it's MBR entry? > > does it set the END entries correctly? > > maybe with enough examples I can answer these questions definatively. > > I'm most of the way through writing a disk subsystem to replace > the diskslice wd/sd fdisk/disklabel mess we have at the moment.. > (though it's a great improvement over what we had originally) > > thanks
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