Some senseless babbling from Jonathan De Boyne Pollard to Mike Ruskai
on 11-16-99  13:26 about fdisk /query...

 LP>> DriveName Partition Vtype FStype Status Start Size
 LP>>
 LP>> 1 0000003f      c:    1     06       2     0  1023
 LP>> 1 001ffe00      d:    1     06       0  1023   511
 LP>> 1 002ffd00      e:    1     06       0  1535   511
 LP>> 1 003ffc00      f:    1     06       0  2047   397
 LP>> 2 0000003f      g:    1     06       2     0  1023
 LP>> 2 001ffe00      h:    1     06       0  1023  1023
 LP>> 2 003ffc00      i:    1     06       0  2047  1023
 LP>> 2 005ffa00      j:    1     06       0  3071   259
 LP>> 2 00681900       :    0     00       0  3331     5
 LP>> **BIOS: 504MB

 JDBP> It's worth noting, by the way, the very last entry given by FDISK. 
 JDBP> This indicates that there are 5MeB of space on her second physical
 JDBP> drive that aren't assigned to any partition.  The irony is that with
 JDBP> the scheme chosen by Linda's guru, this space is completely unusable,
 JDBP> since no more partitions can be created on the disc.  (Although one
 JDBP> wonders why the fourth primary partition "J:" was created short like
 JDBP> this.  Perhaps a side effect of creating the partition using a hex
 JDBP> editor on the partition table and doing the arithmetic incorrectly ? 
 JDBP> (-:) 

It might have been FDISK that did the bad math.  One of my drives has 7MB
of empty space at the beginning, and just a single logical drive defined.
FDISK did it, not me.

What I find most silly in the above is that drive 2 is entirely invisible
to DOS, because all of the partitions are beyond 1024 cylinders.

Mike Ruskai
thannymeister@yahoo.com


... A little testy today, aren't we?

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