From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 27 23:22:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA00803 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 23:22:27 -0700 Received: from skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (skynet.ctr.columbia.edu [128.59.64.70]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA00795 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 1995 23:22:24 -0700 Received: (from wpaul@localhost) by skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (8.6.8/8.6.6) id BAA01222; Fri, 28 Apr 1995 01:18:40 -0400 From: "House of Debuggin'" Message-Id: <199504280518.BAA01222@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> Subject: Re: 0412 SNAP install hangs after 'changing root device ...' To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 1995 01:18:37 -0400 (EDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504280029.KAA11445@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 28, 95 10:29:03 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1412 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk They say this Bruce Evans person was kidding when he wrote: > >> 3. During the install of 0412 newfs produces the following warning > >> message 'Calculated sectors per cylinder 4096 disagrees with disklabel > >> (2046). No other warnings/errors are produced during the install. > > >I think this is possibly a clue.. > > Probably not. This is a normal warning. newfs now always uses 4096 > sectors per cylinder by default. > > Bruce > Y'know, I see this same message whenever I mount my swap partition as an mfs filesystem on /tmp, and I saw it today when trying to newfs a floppy. At least in the case of the floppy, this caused me all sorts of grief until I forced it to use 36 sectors per cylinder with a command line option (4096 sectors per cylinder on a 1.44 meg floppy? yer kidding, right?). Could somebody please explain to me what's so normal about this value? -Bill -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~T~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Møøse Illuminati: ignore it and be confused, or join it and be confusing! ~~~~~~~~~ FreeBSD 2.1: "We can kick your operating system's ass!" ~~~~~~~~~~