Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 16:57:27 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: clefevre@citeweb.net Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, John De Boskey <jwd@FreeBSD.ORG>, Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: "disklabel -rw ar0 auto" breaks HPT raid0+1 Message-ID: <200111120057.fAC0vR803652@mass.dis.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Nov 2001 23:17:58 %2B0100." <200111112217.fABMHw017887@gits.dyndns.org>
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> Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > There is a section near the end of the 'disklabel' manual page that
> > describes how to partition a disk with a real slice entry instead of
> > dangerously dedicated mode.
>
> are you talking about the "BUG" section ? it only say that disklabel
> doesn't clobber the partition table. the problem is that it overwrite
> the following 15 sectors w/ boot2 while the first 10 sectors are used
> by the RAID hardware... do you see the problem. using fdisk, disklabel
> writes it's boot informations starting at sector 64 since the first
> half cylinder is reserved by fdisk. so, it doesn't clobber anything.
> is this explanation more clear ?
The region owned by the firmware should *not* be visible to applications
opening the device.
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