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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!gmi!zombie.ncsc.mil!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!selway.umt.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: New disklabel not working? 256 heads????? Date: 26 Sep 1994 21:57:50 GMT Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman Montana Lines: 16 Message-ID: <367g4u$5df@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <GILBERT.94Sep19150356@hydra1c.cs.utk.edu> <35mbg2$ro1@news.uni-c.dk> <GILBERT.94Sep21130329@hydra3a.cs.utk.edu> <35v6kr$9cs@uc.msc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.90.192.29 In article <35v6kr$9cs@uc.msc.edu>, John Boggs <jboggs@seq.hamline.edu> wrote: >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! It's very safe. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | FreeBSD core member and all around tech. nate@cs.montana.edu | weenie. work #: (406) 994-4836 | home #: (406) 586-0579 | Available for contract/otherwise work.