Re: Installing & Booting NetBSD 1.2 under SVR4

[Miloslaw Smyk <thorgal%dedal.man.szczecin.pl@localhost>]

On 17-Cze-97, Doug Lee wrote:

>I found the same problem when I installed a Quantum Fireball_TM3200S drive.
>HDToolbox reports 5 heads 159 blocks per track, 793 blocks per cylinder.
>I changed this to 1 head 793 blocks per track and the warning disappears.
>The disadvantage is that HDToolbox will destroy your partitioning
>information in the process. Since this was a new empty drive running in
>parallel
>with my old one, I was free to experiment and just changed it.

The same happened to me. On my Fireball, AFS was writing after the end of
its partition.

>If you were to write down the start and end cyl information for your
>existing partitions, you might be able to re-enter them after changing the
>drive type information. I suspect you would have to re-calculate the start
>and end cyl numbers to compensate for the changed drive geometry.
>I didn't try this myself and don't suggest you do this unless everything is
>backed up or you are very adventurous :-).

It works. You have to calculate how many sectors too big your partition
appears and leave so many sectors free between end of this and beginning of
the next partition.

If you really wish to try this, contact me and I'll give you detailed
instructions.

Regards,
Milek
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