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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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