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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
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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