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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HD Problems (& maybe solutions)
Message-ID: <20799@nigel.udel.EDU>
Date: 1 Jun 90 15:49:23 GMT
References: <1665@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Reply-To: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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In article <1665@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>Calculation would >find the last block of the partition. 

One should keep in mind that there are partitions with odd numbers of sectors.
More than one disk utility fouled up the calculation and munged a disk.
I don't know what the answer is, but it seems clear that there will always
be at least two different size partitions with the same root block offset.
			 -- Darren