So assuming that it doesn't fail, what figure do you recommend I give it?

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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Sebastian Maus wrote:

> * Gavan Fantom <gavan@coolfactor.org> wrote (20040705 22:22):
>> On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, Lewis wrote:
> [...]
>>> Having partitioned my 40Gb ADFS drive into two partitions (well, having
>>> created a 20Gb filecore partition on it anyway), I ran bb_netbsd, which
>>> presented me with a negative figure for the size of the filecore
>>> partition: -2837 cylinders (0--2838)
>> Does it actually error out at this point, or does continuing actually
>> work?
>
> Continuing worked for me. That was on a 4 GB disc, state of the art at
> that time, and also with data on the RISC OS slice that was not lost
> afterwards.
> I thought the negative numbers were due to the new harddisc structure
> that came with RISC OS version 4 but it may well be due to the
> "excessive" size of the harddisc. IMHO, bb_riscbsd should be rewritten
> to reflect modern harddisc sizes and changes in FileCore or ADFS_DiscOp
> calls which have been made meanwhile (years ago). I would not run it on
> a modern system without a recent backup at hand.
>
> HTH,
> -S-
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