Re: Hello everyone ...

[Sven L. <sve...@wa...>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 05:09:15PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > | Using /dev/hda
> > | (parted) p
> > | PROBING FOR AN AMIGA PARTITION TABLE.
> > | Reserved = 2, Prealloc = 0
> > | Cyl = 2112, Sect = 63, Head = 16, Sect*Head = 1008, CylBlocks = 1008
> > | Block size is 128
> > | Segmentation fault
> > 
> > If I try my second disk, I get:
> > 
> > | Using /dev/hdb
> > | (parted) p                                                                
> > | PROBING FOR AN AMIGA PARTITION TABLE.
> > | Reserved = 0, Prealloc = 0
> > | Cyl = 1057, Sect = 63, Head = 16, Sect*Head = 1008, CylBlocks = 1008
> > | Block size is 128
> > | Segmentation fault
> > 
> > I'll reboot into AmigaOS so I can tell you the HdToolBox parameters in a few minutes.
> 
>   - Quantum Fireball 1080A A1M.
> 
>     2112 cylinders 16 heads 63 blocks per track (1008 blocks per cylinder)
>     1063944K (1039 Meg)
> 
>     hda1 (DH0)         2-  18 (  8 Meg)     muF\53 (0x6d754653), bootable pri 2
>     hda2 (DH1)        19- 526 (250 Meg)     muF\53 (0x6d754653)

What are those ?

>     hda3 (root)      527- 592 ( 32 Meg)     0x4c4e5800, EXT2
>     hda4 (swap)      593- 658 ( 32 Meg)     0x53575000
>     hda5 (var)       659- 862 (100 Meg)     0x4c4e5800, EXT2
>     hda6 (usr)       863-2111 (614 Meg)     0x4c4e5800, EXT2
> 
>   - Conner Peripherals 545M 7AT1
> 
>     1957 cylinders 16 heads 63 blocks per track (1008 blocks per cylinder)
>     532224K (519 Meg)
> 
>     hdb1 (home0)       2- 567 (278 Meg)     0x4c4e5800, EXT2
>     hdb2 (home1)     568-1056 (240 Meg)     0x4c4e5800, EXT2, bootable pri 0
> 
> So the geometries are correct.
> 
> But what about the block size of 128?

128 is in 32bit words, so this means 512 block size. It seems to be this
value by default, even though the actual filesystem is using some other
blocksize value. This i have not yet solved.
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
> 						Geert
> 
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> 
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