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From: bill@twwells.uucp (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Mail to uport doesn't work
Summary: Oh, that explains it!
Message-ID: <153@twwells.uucp>
Date: 10 Nov 88 05:53:22 GMT
References: <4893@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <134@twwells.uucp> <4910@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> <152@twwells.uucp> <256@uport.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells)
Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale
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In article <256@uport.UUCP> plocher@uport.UUCP (John Plocher) writes:
: +---- In <152@twwells.uucp> T. William Wells writes:
: | +---- In <4910@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> Jon Zeeff writes:
: | | 2) I can't run mkpart -A to add a bad sector without doing it from the
: | |    floppy
: | +----
: | Uport admits that it's a problem.  Usually you can't boot after using
: | mkpart on a running system.
: +----
: If
:         You have a drive with more than 17 sectors per track (RLL or ESDI)
:         and you run mkpart -A while rooted off of the hard disk

The attributions above are a little wrong: the "Uport admits" is Jon
Zeef. However, John's message explains why I got away with mkpart -A:
my drive has only 17 sectors per track.

Lucky me!

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Bill
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