Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1995 09:05:00 -0600 (CST) From: Dave Waddell <waddell@POSC.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, questions@FreeBSD.org, phk@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: More on stand/newfs failure Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.950126090345.739E-100000@sys14> In-Reply-To: <1209.791075050@time.cdrom.com>
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>From my earlier mail: >> I also noted that my Teac CDROM CD50 was not seen as a CDROM drive: >> Unit attention asc:28 >> cd0 drive empty >> Could not get size >> even though i had the FreeBSD CDRom in there. Thanks for your help. Dave On Wed, 25 Jan 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > What do they use at Walnut Creek? I was under the impression that they > > used FreeBSD for their 32GB of stuff. Is there any way to adjust the > > disk parameters with some other program? Or, even better, can I do the > > whole thing by hand i.e. the newfs'ing and installation. Finally, will > > the OS recognize my CDRom when it finally boots? > > We actually boot off a much smaller (2GB) drive with a translated > geometry of 2MB/cyl. This works fine. The other drives can be > hand-newfs'd without any trouble since you're up and running at that > point and can run newfs easily. At boot time, there isn't even a > shell to facilitate this (no room!). > > I don't remember what kind of CDROM you have - can you refresh my > memory? > > Jordan > ========================================================================== | Dave Waddell | Disclaimer - I don't even speak for myself | | waddell@posc.org | | | kb5wxe@kb5wxe.ampr.org | + 1 713 267 5103 | ==========================================================================
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