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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:57:34 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Ceri Storey <c.storey@student.umist.ac.uk>
Cc:        Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, Sandeep Kohli <fuhrer6mill@yahoo.com>, fbsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: accessing ide 
Message-ID:  <200103281557.f2SFvY956054@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:42:40 %2B0100." <20010328104240.B443@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk> 
References:  <20010328104240.B443@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk>  <3AC1D2B2.F3244CA2@yahoo.com> <20010328113625.C5524@ringworld.oblivion.bg> 

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In message <20010328104240.B443@cds220.halls.umist.ac.uk> Ceri Storey writes:
: but these two command lines give me different results, eg:
: cds220# head -c 32 /dev/ad0c | hd
: so they are not equivalent?

ad0 is the whole device.  ad0c is the whole slice.  These can be the
same, but are often different.  /dev/ad0 is the right device to open
if you want to access the mbr.

Warner

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