Re: bb_netbsd figure

Dear folks,

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 11:42:34AM +0200, Sebastian Maus wrote:
> > > Having partitioned my 40Gb ADFS drive into two partitions (well, having
> > > created a 20Gb filecore partition on it anyway), I ran bb_netbsd, which
> > > presented me with a negative figure for the size of the filecore
> > > partition: -2837 cylinders (0--2838)
> > Does it actually error out at this point, or does continuing actually
> > work?
> 
> I thought the negative numbers were due to the new harddisc structure
> that came with RISC OS version 4 but it may well be due to the
> "excessive" size of the harddisc. IMHO, bb_riscbsd should be rewritten
> to reflect modern harddisc sizes and changes in FileCore or ADFS_DiscOp
> calls which have been made meanwhile (years ago). I would not run it on
> a modern system without a recent backup at hand.

AFAIK its mainly due to artithmic overflow as in too big numbers. I dont
have such big harddiscs in my system nor do I have RO 4+ (or docs)... so if
someone could give me either enough info or take up the job of updating it
(its a small small straitforward program really) I would be most gratefull.

Cheers,
Reinoud
(port acorn32 portmaster)

P.S. sorry to be so absent lately; my health is still preventing me to do 
much beside my current work on pkgsrc/misc/udfclient