Re: BFFS 1.5 problems

["Georges Heinesch" <ghmlist%attglobal.net@localhost>]

Quoting Ignatios Souvatzis (30-May-00 20:17:09):

>> How can I know it's correct? The only way I can get this
>> information is via HDToolBox. No idea whether it's correct ?!?!
>> Before, I had BFFS
>> 1.5 beta installed with a JAZ drive, and there the used data from
>> HDToolBox worked perfectly.

> There is no "right" and "wrong" with modern SCSI or "IDE" (ATA)
> disks. Disks tell you a geometry if you (or HDTOOLBOS) ask them
> nicely, but thats  completely fictional...

> If you _use_ this geometry (e.g. for file system or partition
> addressing  purposes) you have only to make sure that all tools use
> the same geometry.

And that's what I do. So this can't be the reason for my failed BFFS
config ;(( [would have been too easy ... ;)]

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