On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Trevin Beattie wrote:
>
> > The way things stand now, the disk label on the i386 port gets written at
> > an offset of 512 bytes from the start of the partition.  (Or, more
> > generally, 'LABELSECTOR' DEV_BSIZE blocks from the start of the disk, on
> > any port.)  I've already posed the question of the disk label location
> > before, and Bill recommends placing it on sector 1, using the drive's
>
> Well, I'm not sure what else to do. Prior Art would be nice. :-)

Doh!

I send this, and someone suggests a test.

Look at the MBR under Windows on such a disk. Does it grow to fill the
whole sector, or does it stay in only the first 512-bytes?

Take care,

Bill