From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 28 17:00:10 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA01846 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 17:00:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA01840 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 17:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA15094 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 16:52:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd015091; Sun Sep 28 23:52:28 1997 Message-ID: <342EED86.1CFBAE39@whistle.com> Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 16:51:34 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do you have Ontrack Disk manager? References: <342EE53C.59E2B600@whistle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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