Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 02:06:18 +0100 (CET) From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: John De Boskey <jwd@FreeBSD.ORG>, Stable List <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: "disklabel -rw ar0 auto" breaks HPT raid0+1 Message-ID: <200111120106.fAC16J324069@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <200111112347.fABNlUS48412@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote: > > : > :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 ? > > No, the EXAMPLES section. there is nothing in the "EXAMPLES" section which prevent to write the first 16 sectors if using the drive in `dangerously-dedicated' mode that is w/ no fdisk partition. Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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