Subject: Re: Dicing with disks
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/01/2001 13:58:16
Hello!

Okay, I /think/ I probably need to use fdisk because I will be booting
from the disk.  If I'm correct, fdisk partition '0' is the whole disk
minus the boot track.  I'm not sure why the BIOS thinks the disk only
has 902 cylinders, that's odd.  I'm banging my head against disklabel
at the moment, but here's my current 'fdisk wd0' output...

- Andy Ball.

----------------------------------<fdisk wd0>-----------------------------------
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 903 heads: 8 sectors/track: 46 (368 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 902 heads: 8 sectors/track: 46 (368 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 46, size 332258 (162 MB), flag 0x80
        beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
        end: cylinder  902, head   7, sector 46
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>
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