forgot to mention I was using 1.5

Wolfgang Rupprecht writes:
 > 
 > >     eval `fdisk -S $disk`
 > >     echo "Writing the sector-0 partition table"
 > >     fdisk -f -i -b ${DLCYL}/${DLHEAD}/${DLSEC} ${disk}
 > >     echo "Configuring partition-4 of sector-0 partition table"
 > >     fdisk -3 -afu -s ${partition_id}/0/${DLSIZE} ${disk}
 > 
 > Thanks.
 > 
 > I'm beginning to suspect that there is a bug in -current.  Here is
 > what I get:
 > 
 >     $ ./fdisk-rmcm
 >     + dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d bs=64k count=10
 >     10+0 records in
 >     10+0 records out
 >     655360 bytes transferred in 0.070 secs (9362285 bytes/sec)
 >     + fdisk -f -i wd0
 >     fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
 >     + fdisk -S wd0
 >     + eval DLCYL=13424 DLHEAD=15 DLSEC=63 DLSIZE=12685680 BCYL=527 BHEAD=255 BSEC=63 PART0SIZE=0 PART1SIZE=0 PART2SIZE=0 PART3SIZE=0
 >     + DLCYL=13424 DLHEAD=15 DLSEC=63 DLSIZE=12685680 BCYL=527 BHEAD=255 BSEC=63 PART0SIZE=0 PART1SIZE=0 PART2SIZE=0 PART3SIZE=0
 >     + echo Writing the sector-0 partition table
 >     Writing the sector-0 partition table
 >     + fdisk -f -i -b 13424/15/63 wd0
 >     + echo Configuring partition-4 of sector-0 partition table
 >     Configuring partition-4 of sector-0 partition table
 >     + fdisk -3 -afu -s 169/0/12685680 wd0
 >     Making partition 3 active.
 >     + fdisk wd0
 >     NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
 >     cylinders: 13424 heads: 15 sectors/track: 63 (945 sectors/cylinder)
 > 
 >     BIOS disk geometry:
 >     cylinders: 527 heads: 255 sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
 > 
 >     Partition table:
 >     0: <UNUSED>
 >     1: <UNUSED>
 >     2: <UNUSED>
 >     3: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
 > 	start 0, size 12685680 (6194 MB), flag 0x80
 > 	    beg: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  1
 > 	    end: cylinder  526, head 254, sector 63
 > 
 > The netbsd partition looks ok, but the bios/mbr geometry is unchanged
 > from the default.
 > 
 > -wolfgang

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Rex McMaster