Frans Pop ha scritto:
> *.size is the disk size in sectors.
> hda_{0,1,2,3}_sil.dat are all identical, but there are some differences
> between .dat files for hda and hdb.
> *.offset files are numbers close to the end of the disk, so apparently the
> SATA RAID signature is saved 4 times near the end of the disk for
> redundancy.
In this case yes (Silicon Image fakeraid), but this isn't true always.
> Question is if the disk size is encoded in the .dat files. IMO the main
Yes, you can find Silicon Image metadata layout on dmraid source,
1.0.0.rc14/lib/format/ataraid/sil.h
> reason to use the procedure you devised would be to generate disk images
> of a different size (80GB was a bit of a pain for the conversion from
> vbox to VirtualBox format for example).
Uhmm, there are some unknown metadata sectors, I think this isn't possible.
Giuseppe.
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