From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 15:19:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF9FE16A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:19:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spacecat.mcgillsociety.org (adsl-216-158-26-62.cust.oldcity.dca.net [216.158.26.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8EFC43D55 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 15:19:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from magill@mcgillsociety.org) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (abase.mcgillsociety.org [216.158.26.165]) j07FHCl345286; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 10:17:21 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20050106182644.GA57934@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <200501031101.j03B1wtR006075@freefall.freebsd.org> <20050106182644.GA57934@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <05847D56-604E-11D9-8A59-000393768D2C@mcgillsociety.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Image-Url: http://www.mcgillsociety.org/magill.jpg From: "William H. Magill" Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:47:00 -0500 To: Wilko Bulte X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Documentation and similar issues with 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 15:19:46 -0000 On 06 Jan, 2005, at 13:26, Wilko Bulte wrote: >> 2) Does anybody have any descriptions of "rational" disk layouts for >> 4 or 9 gig drives? [Both boot and "other"] >> ... especially since I have a "blue" SW shelf of "VW" drives. > > You could use Auto from sysinstall for a start. As I recall, I couldn't get "Auto" to work. I had to define layouts manually. I know that there were one or two places in the sysinstall that didn't work as one would expect them to work. I plan on re-installing multiple times, so I'll take better notes the next time around. >> 3) Does anybody have a description of the disk initialization process >> which applies to 5.3? >> >> The "diskformatting tutorial" hasn't been updated since 1997, and >> is >> simply wrong! >> The "handbook section 16.3.1 is also wrong. > > No need to format SCSI disks in your StorageWorks shelf. Could you elaborate on this? I suspect we may mean different things by "format." If they are not labeled and newfs'd how does one mount them? (I had been using them with Tru64 earlier, so they had labels not recognized by FreeBSD.) Note also that this shelf is NOT using the RAID card ... I have to find a floppy with the code for the Mylex DAC960 -- that's my next project. >> Probably the most glaring "error" I find is a constant reference to >> "fdisk" which no longer exists! > > fdisk is a PeeCee concept, it is not used on Alpha. It would be good if there was something, somewhere which said that ... like maybe in section 2.2 of the hardware notes. T.T.F.N. William H. Magill # Beige G3 [Rev A motherboard - 300 MHz 768 Meg] OS X 10.2.8 # Flat-panel iMac (2.1) [800MHz - Super Drive - 768 Meg] OS X 10.3.7 # PWS433a [Alpha 21164 Rev 7.2 (EV56)- 64 Meg] Tru64 5.1a # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-3 (EV6) - 256 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 # XP1000 [Alpha 21264-A (EV 6.7) - 384 meg] FreeBSD 5.3 magill@mcgillsociety.org magill@acm.org magill@mac.com whmagill@gmail.com