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Product name: pdisk
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Version: 0.8
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Ship date: 16 May 2000
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Company name: n/a
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Author name: Eryk Vershen
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Description: A low-level Apple partition table editor for Linux.
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A MacOS version exists for "standalone" use.
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What's New: Clean up sources - fix naming, delete old email addresses
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Added support for display of Mac volume names
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Added cvt_pt target (for LinuxPPC team)
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Fix block 0 display to show logical offset of drivers
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Require confimation of quit without write
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Fix iteration to not complain about missing devices
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Warn when creating/writing a map with more than 15 entries
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Make initial window larger in Mac version
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Fix ATA support to scan buses correctly
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Fix linux names (in MacOS) to work right when many devices
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Change so WORM devices are considered 'CDs'
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Last time: Added support for ATA/IDE disks without LBA capability
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Fixed bug - create partition with unmodified size failed
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Added support for new (DR3) MkLinux names - show MkLinux
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name when displaying under another name and allow the
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MkLinux name to be used on input.
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Requirements: Linux PPC - just run the binary
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MacOS - Distributed binaries for PowerPC or 68000
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I haven't tried it except on 7.6.1 and 8.0
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Price: Free
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Legalese:
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Modifications copyright 2000 by Eryk Vershen
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Copyright 1996,1997,1998 by Apple Computer, Inc.
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All Rights Reserved
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Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and
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its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
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provided that the above copyright notice appears in all copies and
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that both the copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
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supporting documentation.
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APPLE COMPUTER DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE
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INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
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FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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IN NO EVENT SHALL APPLE COMPUTER BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR
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CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM
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LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
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NEGLIGENCE, OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
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WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
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Contact Info: You can send mail to the author. There is no guarantee of
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a response, but it is your best hope of getting a bug fixed
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or a feature added.
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Other info:
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READ the html file or the man page.
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Finding out about apple partitioning
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The best curently available documentation on the Apple disk partitioning scheme
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is "Technote 1189: The Monster Disk Drive Technote". This release is not
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completely in sync with that technote. Maybe next time.
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Building the macintosh application
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I have only built this under Code Warrior Pro. The project file is included.
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Thanks to Martin Minow for the SCSI support code.
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Some notes on the apple partitioning
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The apple disk partitioning scheme was developed in 1986. It attempted to
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be forward thinking as it was intended to handle drives of sizes up to several
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hundred megabytes. There was a design document, but like most such documents
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it was neither complete nor unambiguous.
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While the original intent was to handle various block sizes, in practice
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most devices use a partitioning block size of 512 bytes.
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Since the various address fields are 32 bits unsigned this means the format
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can handle disks up to 2 Terabytes in size. (32bits + 9 bits = 41 bits)
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Because the format was designed around SCSI, there is no knowledge of
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cylinders or heads, all block address are in absolute sector form.
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A correct map should describe every block on the disk except for block zero.
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An aside on CDROMs. Most old apple CDROMs have incorrect data in block zero.
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Since the HFS file-system could only handle 512 byte blocks, apple drives had
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a special mode where they would do deblocking (i.e. converting 2k blocks
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into four 512byte blocks and accepting 512byte block addresses.) The partition
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maps laid down on these disks are for the deblocked form. In many cases the
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partition maps they contain have only the minimum number of fields correct.
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At least one CDROM I have seen doesn't even contain a partition map at all,
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but is simply an HFS volume.
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Bootable CD-ROMs have even stranger partition maps since two are laid down:
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one at 2K offsets and one at 512-byte offsets. If you notice that these
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overlap then you begin to get an idea of how wierd these maps can be.
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Apple refers to this "technique" as ghost partitioning.
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The documentation in Inside Macintosh is only partially correct.
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The boot-arguments field was left out. A/UX used the boot arguments field
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for something that was called the bzb (block zero block - don't ask me why).
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This structure evolved over the course of A/UX. I have recapitulated this
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in the dpme.h header file.
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Making a disk with Apple & Intel partitioning
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Don't cringe. I know it is an awful hack, but sometimes...
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While I don't recommend doing this, it can be useful.
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The procedure below is what we did.
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The intel map can contain NO MORE THAN FOUR PRIMARY PARTITIONS.
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You can't have any extended or logical partitions. (Well, you might get it
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to work but I wouldn't want to try it.) The disk will NOT BE INTEL BOOTABLE.
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1) Use pdisk to initialize an apple partition map. Don't add any partitions
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yet, just write the map out and quit.
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2) Use fdisk to create the primary partitions. Go into the expert 'x' menu
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in fdisk and print out the table with the sector addresses. Write the
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start and lengths down some where. Write the table out.
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3) Use pdisk again. Shrink the partition map down, if necessary, so it
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does not overlap any intel partition. Create an apple partition for each
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intel partition using the start and length value you got from fdisk.
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Write out the map and quit.
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At present file systems are not compatible between Linux & MkLinux, but you
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can tar stuff into these partitions and tar them out on another machine.
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Good luck,
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-eryk vershen
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software mechanic
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eryk@cfcl.com
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