Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 08:48:07 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk Message-ID: <199603220748.IAA17322@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199603220049.RAA01342@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 21, 96 05:49:06 pm
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As Terry Lambert wrote: > In any case, a linear congruential search for the boundry conditions > followed by a binary search could easily find the last sector on > any device for you. This is what is done in a partition recognition > TSD under Win95. How big is the chance that this will jam an good ol' ``dumb'' drive? (Seeking beyond the last cylinder, that it is.) I remember well the times where people gave the advice in Usenet to ``put a business card into the floppy drive'' to stop it from jamming. This was due to a too aggressive floppy tape driver. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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