From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 3 05:00:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA28033 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 05:00:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA28027 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 05:00:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [208.2.87.4] (cod.dataplex.net [208.2.87.4]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id HAA04663; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 07:00:31 -0600 (CST) X-Sender: rkw@shrimp.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: ; from Richard Wackerbarth on Mar 3, 1997 00:53:08 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 06:54:31 -0600 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: SCSI setup help !!! Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 4:23 AM -0600 3/3/97, J Wunsch wrote: >Keep Win95 or other poisoned systems away. Don't worry. This is a "Microsoft Free Zone". :-) I don't even have a copy of "DOS" to run setup on those sh*^^y pc interface cards. >> Everything seemed fine. It ask if I wanted to leave something to stay >> compatible. I said "yes". >That's been your problem. :) No no, rather that you've got the geometry >wrong. Don't blame ME! I wasn't ask anything about "geometry." I suspect that the problem has to do with the false assumptions used for these generic allocations. >The only help short of a reinstall is to hand-tweak ... OK. I'll "buy" a reinstall. I can move the good data off of another disk and change the SCSI address when I get finished. Here's what I think I want. What do you suggest for details. 1) At least 3 HD will start with a small (30M-40M) bootable root partition. 2) Every disk will support some swap (say 60M == I'll go to mfs /tmp) 3) Each disk will have a moderate partition for /usr, part of /home, or similar 4) Each disk will have a large partition (To be combined into a huge ccd partition later) for /pub I would prefer to set it up in sysinstall, but will drop back to the "strange incantations" if necessary. Please "hold my hand" a bit. I need a system that can reboot itself without pressing the keyboard at just the right instant while booting from a floppy. Thanks in advance, Richard BTW. The drives are Seagate ST12550N. I damn hot 2G drive. (Especially with the cover off the box.. ouch) An old label I manually generated "before" the new-fangled way of doing geometry. shrimp: {194} disklabel sd2a # /dev/rsd2a: type: SCSI disk: sd2s1 label: Dataplex Archive flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 81 tracks/cylinder: 19 sectors/cylinder: 1539 cylinders: 2714 sectors/unit: 4178304 rpm: 7200 The label generated by sysinstall (and friends) shrimp: {195} disklabel sd0a # /dev/rsd0a: type: SCSI disk: sd0s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 17 tracks/cylinder: 19 sectors/cylinder: 323 cylinders: 252 sectors/unit: 81702 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] a: 81702 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 252*) c: 81702 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 252*)