From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 24 00:18:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id AAA20069 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 00:18:00 -0800 Received: from campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA20063 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 1995 00:17:50 -0800 Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de by campino.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (4.1/campino-6) id AA06844; Tue, 24 Jan 95 09:17:33 +0100 Received: by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (KAA00162); Tue, 24 Jan 1995 10:24:06 +0100 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 10:24:06 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" Message-Id: <199501240924.KAA00162@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: disklabel (1.1.5.1), partitions Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I had disk problems on 'gil' recently (hopefully solved) - reformatted a Fuji M2694S using SCSICNTL. I was wondering about the following when disklabeling again: dmesg told me: 2117025 1819 cyl 15 heads 77 sec Using these figures in a disktab entry resulted in a warning saying that partitions c,d,e exceeded end of disk. (I made them p[cde]#2117025). So I reduced them to what 15 * 77 * 1819 calculates to, namely 2100945 and disklabel kept silent. Did I give away some sectors ? --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de FreeBSD blues 2.1.0-Development FreeBSD 2.1.0-Development #1: Wed Jan 18 10:42:31 1995 kuku@blues:/usr/src/sys/compile/BLUES i386