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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!news.drenet.dnd.ca!crc-news.doc.ca!nott!bcarh189.bnr.ca!nrchh45.rich.nt.com!ferret.ocunix.on.ca!resurrect From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: ESDI sectors/cyl vs disk label :( Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 21:21:38 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 15 Message-ID: <R.3244BED2.794BDF32@FreeBSD.org> References: <51rsdk$61j@cibnor2.cibnor.conacyt.mx> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: "Larry Miller [DT]" <lmiller@cibnor.cibnor.conacyt.mx> Reposting article removed by rogue canceller. Larry Miller [DT] wrote: > The drive is ESDI, 1780 cyl, 7 heads, 54 sec/track, 512b/s. The > controller has options for sector mapping to 17,32, or 63 sectors and/or > 1024 cyl truncation. Installing from boot floppies over NFS. I've Query: What happens if you ask for 63 sector mapping and no truncation. In the partition editor, say "(A)ll" and choose the "Dangerously dedicated" option (e.g. choose not to cooperate with other OSes). This will utterly ignore the geometry and simply blast raw all over the disk (nuking any other operating systems you might have installed, I might add - I'm assuming that a 386/20 would not be called upon to do more than one job, however :-). -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project