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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!mvb.saic.com!news.alpha.net!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rkb55989 From: rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal Boni) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: labelling wd0 so as to mount it as PCFS Date: 26 Sep 1994 16:07:53 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 24 Message-ID: <366rkp$i06@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <miff.779378609@apanix.apana.org.au> <35clsi$ia@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes: >I believe you've got to have 'd' as the whole disk, 'c' as the whole FreeBSD >partition and 'e'/'f'/'g'/'h' as you DOS partition. You've also got to have >dos starting at sector 31 for some reason (it actually starts at 32) However that may work out, you should probably remeber that that magic 32 [or 31] is the number of sectors per track [or that number minus one]. I'm not quite sure how this discussion started, since the original article seems to be long gone from here, but this makes life more general. I have seen a couple poeple try to "magically" plop in the standard quoted value on disks that have more/less SPT and get stuff that doesn't work real well.... >Try it that way - I'm not certain that it well work. My $0.019999.... --rafal /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit | Rafal Boni | | 15% of the earth, which is 100% more than they | r-boni@uiuc.edu | | have now..." -Cartoon caption in New Yorker | My opinions, not UIUC's | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/