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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!umn.edu!msc.edu!jboggs From: jboggs@seq.hamline.edu (John Boggs) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: New disklabel not working? 256 heads????? Date: 23 Sep 1994 18:26:35 GMT Organization: Lines: 11 Distribution: world Message-ID: <35v6kr$9cs@uc.msc.edu> References: <GILBERT.94Sep19150356@hydra1c.cs.utk.edu> <35mbg2$ro1@news.uni-c.dk> <GILBERT.94Sep21130329@hydra3a.cs.utk.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: seq.hamline.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Yeah, but is this warning (can't handle 256 heads from partition table) DANGEROUS? If I just leave it, will my disk one day end up trashed? I've been ignoring it, since it resets to 16 heads, which is what my only drive has. However, I don't want to wake up one morning to a very nasty surprise! John D. Boggs \ The great thing about human language is Circulation Librarian \ that it prevents us from sticking to Associate System Administrator \ the matter at hand. -Lewis Thomas Bush Memorial Library, Hamline University. jdboggs@piper.hamline.edu