From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 12 15:27:03 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA17254 for current-outgoing; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 15:27:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from rs3.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE (519@rs3.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.100.214]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA17238 for ; Thu, 12 Dec 1996 15:26:59 -0800 (PST) Received: by rs3.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE id AA34941 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org); Fri, 13 Dec 1996 00:26:45 +0100 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 00:26:45 +0100 (MET) From: Ralf Luettgen To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: How to calculate the tracks? (fwd) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 17:21:58 -0500 (EST) From: David C Niemi To: Ralf Luettgen Cc: Alain.Knaff@poboxes.com Subject: How to calculate the tracks? (fwd) Doesn't FreeBSD have support for DOS-style partition tables in its fdisk program? If so, you could define a DOS partition using fdisk and then use mkdosfs (if FreeBSD has this program, I don't remember). As for how to do it with mformat, I'd suggest you go ahead and experiment with it, unless you already have important data on a different partition on the Jaz disk. David Niemi@linux.wauug.org 703-810-5538 Reston, Virginia, USA ------ Money talks, but it is wrong half of the time. ----- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 23:04:28 +0100 To: David.Niemi@mail.li.org Subject: How to calculate the tracks? Hi, I'm running FreeBSD with mtools 3.0. My question is, in which way I've to calculate the number of tracks by a mformat. The actual problem is to mformat a jaz disk. It has 1021 cyl, 64 heads and 32 sectors. Please could you say me, what will be the right value for the tracks option by mformat. I've make a partition on the disk wich starts at sector 32. Thank you for help by Ralf