On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 12:11:55AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > 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 That would let me detect uninitalized drives as well as out of date 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..
The thing I'm worried about there is that some "smart" bios or os might sanity check the values and refuse to work with the drive. Is that a likely scenerio? -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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