From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 12 19:50:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00977 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 19:50:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from blue.thrunet.net (ns2.thrunet.net [206.98.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA00972 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 19:50:18 -0800 (PST) Received: by blue.thrunet.net (950511.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH526/940406.SGI.AUTO) for id VAA02778; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 21:45:13 -0600 Received: from windozer.thrunet.net(206.98.23.97) by blue.thrunet.net via smap (g3.0.1) id sma002769; Wed, 12 Mar 97 21:44:58 -0600 Received: by windozer.thrunet.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BC2F2C.1179E940@windozer.thrunet.net>; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 21:26:37 -0600 Message-ID: <01BC2F2C.1179E940@windozer.thrunet.net> From: "Robert J. Strickler" To: "'isp@freebsd.org'" Subject: Summary: Segate 9G ST4108 setup Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 21:26:34 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk be aware: "scsiformat" runs for HOURS! fdisk with the following parameters: cylinders=8669 heads=64 sectors/track=32 In partition 3 (counting from 0) sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 6144, size 17747968 (8666 Meg), flag 80 beg: cyl 3/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 32/ head 63 disklabel -R -r sd0 label-st4108 If you are telnetted to the system check for error messages in the log, sometimes they only go to SYSLOG and console. tail /var/log/messages create the special file for use by the "newfs" command /dev/MAKEDEV sd0s4 create the new filesystem newfs /dev/rsd0s4h add your mount point to /etc/fstab. -------- file label-st4108 ------------- # /dev/rsd0c: type: SCSI disk: sd0s4 label: NewsAlt flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 8666 sectors/unit: 17747968 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 17747968 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 8665) h: 17747936 32 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 8665*) #