Subject: Re: Spectrum issues revisited
To: Amiga NetBSD port <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Tobias Abt <tabt@gmx.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 06/29/1999 23:30:33
> > Either you or your harddisk partitioning tool wrote nonsense into the rigid
> > disk lock structure.
> 
>  HDFoolbox ...

HDToolBox is known to miscalculate the values if you let it guess the
parameters automatically. I usually use ProbeSCSI, get the total number
of blocks, get the prime factors of that number and then build my own
tracks, heads and sectors counts. This way I can make sure there is as
little loss as possible and that the tracks are not too big, because you
lose the first two for the RDBs anyway.

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