Hi folks,

   I just purchased a Maxtor 1260 (1.2G) IDE drive and had a bear of a time
   installing it.  I was trying to put both DOS and unix on it (It will be
   replacing a Maxtor 345 with DOS & NetBSD partitions) but it was extremely
   difficult to label (it would trash the partition information for the
   whole drive).  I finally got it to work (I hope) by using the NetBSD
   install script, but I don't feel confident on how reliable the solution
   is.

   I don't know the actual workings of disklabel so was in the dark on how
   it wrote the NetBSD partition information.  I had assumed it would only
   write the label in the NetBSD partition but it looked like it was writing
   it on the disk partition section in the first sectors of the disk?  Ideas?

   Ohhhh!!  On top of that, I also found out that DOS 5.0 can only handle
   partitions of ~523 Megs? How lame!  (1024 Cylinders)  My disk has 2448 Cyl.

   Let me give you my disk parameters and partition sizes (to the best of my
   memory)

   Maxtor 71260A
   -------------------
   Cylinders   - 2448
   Heads       - 16
   Sectors/Trk - 63
   Sectors/Cyl - 1008
   Bytes/Sec   - 512

   OS      Type Start(Cyl) Length(Cyl)  Start(Sec)    Length (Sec)
   ---------------------------------------------------------------
   DOS        6     0        1022          63        1031121
   NetBSD   165  1023        2446     1032192        1435392  (or something)

   I guess what I'm asking is, has anyone installed this drive and configured
   it for multiple partitions?  

   Does my current setup sound stable?  (I'm really worried about it)

   Brad
   
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