From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 7 18:50:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF2537B422 for ; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 18:50:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f381oRq65755; Sat, 7 Apr 2001 19:50:27 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200104080150.f381oRq65755@harmony.village.org> To: Luigi Rizzo Subject: Re: Adding a new drive Cc: Andrew Hesford , Jon Molin , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 08 Apr 2001 03:40:04 +0200." <200104080140.DAA21512@info.iet.unipi.it> References: <200104080140.DAA21512@info.iet.unipi.it> Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 19:49:11 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <200104080140.DAA21512@info.iet.unipi.it> Luigi Rizzo writes: : > In message <20010406110817.B29989@cec.wustl.edu> Andrew Hesford writes: : > : Hrm... I'm sorry then. I have no idea why the Handbook asks you to zero : > : out the device, it consumes a lot of time and really isn't necessary. I : > : wonder if that could be the source of your problem. : > : > The handbook should say that only the first cylendar (usually 1M) : > should be zeroed. : : do you really need to zero out everything, or just the MBR, : or maybe just the first block in the slice ? In practice, I've foudn that the MBR (sector 0) plus the first track plus the first sector that will be in the slice that fdisk creates are the critical parts. Otherwise boot1 gets confused and won't boot things. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message