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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Subject: Re: does /dev/hd0 really ignore the partition table ?
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Date: Fri, 24 Aug 90 21:03:25 GMT
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In article <1990Aug24.041837.29054@watdragon.waterloo.edu> grwalter@watfun.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Walter) writes:
>A kind person informed me that :
>
>:/dev/hd0 refers to the raw drive (the whole thing).
>:If you want to access partitions, use hd1, hd2, hd3, etc.
>:I have DOS in hd1, minix on hd2 and Minix boot on hd3.
>
>	fred

On the ST version, hd0 refers to the boot block of the hard disk at SCSI 0/0.
hd[1-4] are partitions 1 thru 4, and hd5 is the entire disk, ignoring any
partition boundaries.

(On my system, I use hd00, hd0[a-d], hd10, hd1[a-d], etc...)
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  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
  one million data bits stored on a chip, one million bits per chip
	if one of those data bits happens to flip,
		one million data bits stored on the chip...