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#GVP questions

    08-Jan-89 23:59:24
Sb: #29491-#GVP questions
Fm: David Art 72017,1130
To: Steven Bennett 70046,441
GVP creates their own reserved cylinders, similar to the 2090A. With their autoboot ROMs, the all user partitions can be FFS. I have a 20 meg disk with one partition that is all FFS. I suspect, though, that you will have to completely re-initialize your disk when you do install autoboot. The auto-installation facility takes care of the reserved tracks for you when it detects the presence of the autoboot ROMs. BTW – my guess (and it's only a guess) is that GVP writes the mountlist on the reserved tracks and that's why people have not been able to detect performance differences by changing mountlist entries in their HD's devs:mountlist file.