grwalter@watfun.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Walter) (08/23/90)
price@mandala.unl.edu (Chad Price) writes: >My memory of Minix is that /dev/hd0 treats the ENTIRE disk as a Minix >partition, regardless of the partition table. Is this true ? I haven't MINIX yet, but when I get it I plan on having two partitions; one for DOS and one for MINIX. If I have to worry about trashing the DOS partition though... I can avoid writing to /dev/hd0 directly, but does anything else use that the might be buggy enough to write where it shouldn't ? fred
HIGGINS@ge-dab.ge.com (Sean C. Higgins 8*259-2073) (08/23/90)
>price@mandala.unl.edu (Chad Price) writes: >>My memory of Minix is that /dev/hd0 treats the ENTIRE disk as a Minix >>partition, regardless of the partition table. > >Is this true ? I haven't MINIX yet, but when I get it I plan on having two >partitions; one for DOS and one for MINIX. If I have to worry about >trashing the DOS partition though... > >I can avoid writing to /dev/hd0 directly, but does anything else use that >the might be buggy enough to write where it shouldn't ? > > fred If you are afraid of writing to /dev/hd0, rename is to something like /dev/HARD_DRIVE_0. That way you still have it available and nothing will use it by mistake... Sean
grwalter@watfun.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Walter) (08/24/90)
grwalter@watfun.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Walter) writes: >>>>My memory of Minix is that /dev/hd0 treats the ENTIRE disk as a Minix >>>>partition, regardless of the partition table. >>> >>>Is this true ? I haven't MINIX yet, but when I get it I plan on having two >>>partitions; one for DOS and one for MINIX. If I have to worry about >>>trashing the DOS partition though... 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
hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) (08/25/90)
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...) -- -- 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...