From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 1 16:33:26 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA11418 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 16:33:26 -0800 Received: from haven.ios.com (haven.ios.com [198.4.75.45]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA11412 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 16:33:24 -0800 Received: (from rashid@localhost) by haven.ios.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id TAA08196; Sat, 1 Apr 1995 19:36:00 -0500 From: "Rashid Karimov." Message-Id: <199504020036.TAA08196@haven.ios.com> Subject: Re: 4 gig st15150n disk setups To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 1 Apr 1995 19:36:00 -0500 (EST) Cc: kimc@w8hd.w8hd.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <28362.796768238@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 1, 95 12:30:38 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 896 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there folx , > > > > I've been running on one 4GB and on 8.6GB pretty _heavily_ with no problems > > > whatsoever for a few weeks now! > > > > What manuf. and model are these drives? > > 4GB - Quantum Grand Prix 4.3GB (nice drive, and my current favorite at > <$1,400) Propbably this is kinda offtopic , but _how can one use "user friendly" disklabel from /stand ? I mean one which does his job during the install ? Is there any convenient/safe way to do it ? I'd really like to use that tool - instead of playing Russian roulette with disk geometry myself ? ... well ... I was lazy enough once to add _extra HDD by .. you'll laugh :)) ... i put it into PC as the only one and booted from install flopy ;)) . I partitioned it approriately and later just changed the type for swap partition ... It was the fastest way to partition and newfs'ing new HDD .. SY Lazy RK