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Subject: New DISK! Newer Than disktab!!! OH SHIT!!! HELLLP!!!
Message-ID: <haley.736682158@husc.harvard.edu>
From: haley@scws5.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley)
Date: 6 May 93 09:55:58 GMT
Keywords: New Newer Newest Maxtor 7245AT
Summary: Maxtor 7245AT IDE, Need disktab, or instruction.
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So, I got my federal tax return, and I bike up to a local Computer
shop, and get me A NEW DRIVE!!!

Now I can seriously join the ranks of those who have dedicated their
lives to seeking past MAXMEM...

But wait, gotta label this thing... I wanta set up three partitions,
really:

A 64 cylinder swap space (about 16 Megs)
and a roughly 100 Meg partition, and all the rest in another.

But people got these weird numbers in their disktabs that don't add
up... How do I do this then...

I tried one way, a= whole disk (0-965),
		 b= 902 - 965 (64 cylinders for swap)
		 c= 0 - 399 (~100 Megs)
		 d= 400 - 901 (The rest)

Sizes and offset were computed by measuring the various cylinders
times the sectors per cylinder, 496...

Can someone suggest a method, or point me to a better source of info
than man pages?