Brooks Davis wrote: > What I'd been thinking was that I could write a magic string over the > beginning of the MBR since I'm never going to try and boot these disks. > That would let me detect uninitalized drives as well as out of date > partitioning schemes. Are there any problems to look out for with > this solution? Does anyone know of a better one?
It would be easiest for you to create a partition table on the disk, and steal a table entry with a "magic" partition type to indicate that either the LBA or CHS data was actually version or type information, etc.. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
