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From: rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] formatting of a disk with an nvram partition.
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 15:32:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a8689d949f52e069da443a0da0504a70@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0304161321500.8538-100000@maxroach.lanl.gov>

You could use the undocumented aux/disksim:

	aux/disksim
	echo geometry 32768 512 0 0 0 >/dev/sdXX/ctl

and then configure /dev/sdXX as you want, and then
copy /dev/sdXX/data once you're done.

I just fixed a bug and updated sources, so you need to
pull a new one.



      reply	other threads:[~2003-04-16 19:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-16 19:24 ron minnich
2003-04-16 19:32 ` rsc [this message]

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