Frans Pop ha scritto:
> *.size is the disk size in sectors.
> hda_{0,1,2,3}_sil.dat are all identical, but there are some differences
> between .dat files for hda and hdb.
> *.offset files are numbers close to the end of the disk, so apparently the
> SATA RAID signature is saved 4 times near the end of the disk for
> redundancy.In this case yes (Silicon Image fakeraid), but this isn't true always. > Question is if the disk size is encoded in the .dat files. IMO the main Yes, you can find Silicon Image metadata layout on dmraid source, 1.0.0.rc14/lib/format/ataraid/sil.h > reason to use the procedure you devised would be to generate disk images > of a different size (80GB was a bit of a pain for the conversion from > vbox to VirtualBox format for example). Uhmm, there are some unknown metadata sectors, I think this isn't possible. Giuseppe.
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