From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 22 00:51:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA24026 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:51:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA24019 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:50:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id JAA04136 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:50:54 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA03147 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 09:50:53 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id IAA17322 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 22 Mar 1996 08:48:07 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603220748.IAA17322@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Adding a damn 2nd disk To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 08:48:07 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199603220049.RAA01342@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Mar 21, 96 05:49:06 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)