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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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