Subject: Re: how much is the offset of partition c:?
To: henry nelson <netb@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
From: David Vyskocil <david.vyskocil@wanadoo.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/07/2002 15:26:33
Hi Nelson.

For my drive it's look like this, hope this could help :

routeur: {1} disklabel -r wd0
# /dev/rwd0d:
type: unknown
disk: NetBSD
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 3148
total sectors: 3173184
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
  a:  2923137       63     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0*-
2899)
  b:   249984  2923200       swap                        # (Cyl. 2900 -
3147)
  c:  3173121       63     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0*-
3147)
  d:  3173184        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
3147)

david.vyskocil@wanadoo.fr


----- Original Message -----
From: "henry nelson" <netb@irm.nara.kindai.ac.jp>
To: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 11:58 AM
Subject: how much is the offset of partition c:?


> I'm trying to write a partition table from scratch to build a disklabel
> for a scsi hdd (4.3GB IBM DDRS-34560D).  In the past, working on the i386/
> pc98 port, all my labels have a 256-sector offset for partitions a and c.
> How about "pure" i386?  (Way in the back of my mind I recall "32" for some
> reason.)
>
> Disklabel gives me the d partition as:
> #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   d:  8925000        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
8419*)
>
> What should partition c: be?  What should the offset for partition a: be?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> henry nelson