From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 2 18:32:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA14818 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 18:32:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts11-line12.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA14812 for ; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 18:32:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00233; Fri, 2 Aug 1996 18:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 18:32:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Jeffrey M. Metcalf" cc: questions@freebsd.org, metcalf@imagine.com Subject: Re: Re[2]: Help: backup to hard drive? In-Reply-To: <9607028390.AA839000519@ccgate0.bms.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 2 Aug 1996, Jeffrey M. Metcalf wrote: > Thank you for the reply. In light of the fact that my Trantor > controller in all likelihood will not work for me, I have decided > to buy a large EIDE hard drive to attach as slave to my primary > IDE controller. I will use this as a backup storage device. > I boot from my master EIDE hard drive (IDE controller's BIOS). > So the new question becomes: how can I low-level format my > EIDE hard drive in such a way that I can maximize backup space > for my Win95 and my FreeBSD? I want to only copy *.QIC files > from MS-Backup to the Win95 portion and *.tar (or better > compressed tar) files to the FreeBSD partition. Well, you'll have to decide the partitioning yourself. You'll have to make two slices, one in FAT and one in FreeBSD. Just configure it like a regular disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major