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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!news1.halcyon.com!coho!tzs From: tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD support [was Re: God Damn partition crap!] Date: 6 Apr 1996 12:01:02 GMT Organization: Northwest Nexus, Inc. - Professional Internet Services Lines: 11 Message-ID: <4k5mdu$9ma@news1.halcyon.com> References: <4hqav8$kmo@nntp.interaccess.com> <4jlm89$7bm@calypso.bns.com.au> <4jptra$4h4@calypso.bns.com.au> <4jvbtg$mih@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >Consider: I have two adaptec controllers. I load the software >INT 13 redirector for the second controller in my config.sys. > >How can Linux/BSD know the right geometry without loading the >same driver and making VM86() calls through that driver? Read sector 0, examine the partition map, and see which geometry is consistent with what you found there. --Tim Smith