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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HD Problems (& maybe solutions)
Message-ID: <1666@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 1 Jun 90 00:33:20 GMT
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In <20799@nigel.udel.EDU>, new@udel.EDU (Darren New) writes:
>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

Ahh.. forgot about that one (dunno why, it's bitten me before). I don't think
there's be a problem calculating it though, provided you remembered what you
told the prep program the geometry was when you formatted, since the partition
will always end on a cylinder boundary.

-larry

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