RME audio card user new to FreeBSD

[Juergen Lock]

In article <1353768334.2641.21.camel at q> you write:
>Thank you!
You're welcome!
>
>On Sat, 2012-11-24 at 15:14 +0100, Juergen Lock wrote:
>>  Don't want to try 9.1RC3?
>
>I thought it would be better to start with something "stable" as a
>newbie and now burning already is in progress.
>
 Well I don't think there'll be many changes from RC3 to release,
and you can use freebsd-update to get to -release after it's out
anyway.

>> (I think you can also back it up, but make sure you don't restore the
>> slice table in the mbr too if you add the bsd slice from bsdinstall,
>> only the actual bootcode.)
>
>I backup the first 512 bytes:
>dd if=/dev/sda of=MBR_sda-$BACKUP_NAME_ADD bs=512 count=1
>
>So I should restore from byte 0 to byte 439 only if a restore should be
>needed?
>
 That does sound correct. (tho I haven't verified the exact number 439.)

>I assume that there's also a way to recover a broken partition table
>with "BSD information" if needed and no backup should be available?
>
 There is sysutils/scan_ffs in ports tho I didn't have to try it yet.

 HTH, :)
	Juergen

PS: I have Cc'd the freebsd-questions list as this no longer really
is a multimedia topic...  (Yes I should have done that earlier, sorry.)