From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 09:02:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA13484 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:02:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ritig1.rit.reuters.com (ritig1.rit.reuters.com [199.171.195.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA13473 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 09:02:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ritig4.rit.reuters.com by ritig1.rit.reuters.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Sep94-0947PM) id AA23765; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 12:05:08 -0400 Received: from mr.rit.reuters.com by RITIG4.RIT.REUTERS.COM (PMDF V4.3-10 #7805) id <01I3VPA4B0MO002F5M@RITIG4.RIT.REUTERS.COM>; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 12:02:24 -0500 (EST) Received: with PMDF-MR; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:01:43 EST Mr-Received: by mta REOA.MUAS; Relayed; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:01:43 -0500 Mr-Received: by mta REOA2; Relayed; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:01:43 -0500 Mr-Received: by mta RITIG4; Relayed; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:02:20 -0500 Disclose-Recipients: prohibited Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 17:01:43 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Smith Subject: FWD: FreeBSD 2.1 and Syquest EZ135 To: questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <9343011723041996/A16135/REOA2/11A4BC402B00*@MHS> Autoforwarded: false Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MESSAGE/RFC822 Importance: normal Priority: normal Sensitivity: Company-Confidential Ua-Content-Id: 11A4BC402B00 X400-Mts-Identifier: [;9343011723041996/A16135/REOA2] Hop-Count: 2 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: Andy Smith Subject: FreeBSD 2.1 and Syquest EZ135 To: questions%freebsd.org@mr.rit.reuters.com Message-id: <1853360923041996/A04067/REOA2/11A4BA643400*@MHS> Autoforwarded: false MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Importance: normal Sensitivity: Company-Confidential Can you please help with the following. I have a SyQuest EZ135 135Mb IDE drive on a pentium PC. Even though the system is configured correctly for this drive, with the right number of C,H,S for 135Mb, FreeBSD reports it as a 270Mb drive and doubles the number of cylinders. When configuring the system, I manually changed the drive characteristics, but it still insisted that it was a 270Mb drive. I formatted the initial cartridge to 130Mb for /mnt and 140Mb for a swap partition, and then do not mount the swap partition. This works but is not a solution. How can I format new cartridges to 130Mb. Do you have any ideas of newfs/format commands that I might try?? Thanks Andy