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From: hpeyerl@fsa.ca (Herb Peyerl)
Subject: Re: Problems with NetBSD-08 and ESDI - Please help!
Message-ID: <1993Aug22.042356.23407@fsa.ca>
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References: <244ule$cke@netbsd08.telecom.com.au> <5d3J03pYd8aM00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <24oonpINNffi@kralizec.zeta.org.au>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1993 04:23:56 GMT
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In article <24oonpINNffi@kralizec.zeta.org.au> bde@kralizec.zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) writes:
>BIOS partition 4: 386BSD: cylinders 300-1746: a: 300-399 (boot)
> b: 400-499 (swap)
> c: 300-1023 ("386BSD")
> d: 0-1746 (all)
> e: 1023-1023 (bad144)
> f: 500-1022 (usr)
> g: 1024-1746 (local)
>
Except that you're assigning special functionality to partitions which is
something I think NetBSD is striving to stay away from... Also; "d" should
have no special meaning assigned to it... It's just the same old issue
resurfacing again... Partitions should be "just" partitions that can be
used for things like filesystems...
Also; what happens if a person have more than 30 odd bad-spots? It starts
scribbling over the "f" partition starting from the bottom... Is this
the desired affect?
>This is completely untested.
Remember we're no longer dealing with just the 'x86 arch anymore...
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