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Subject: Re: is this something to worry about?
To: paul@trumpet.net.au (Paul Reece)
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> I've just got the new SCSI drive going by writing my own disktab - sysinstall
> instantly panic'ed whenever I tried using it to do this..

> anyway, when doing newfs I get:

> newfs: /dev/sd0a: not a character-special device

You need to use /dev/rsd0a

> Warning: calculated sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label 
> (1440)

This is normal on SCSI disks.

> Warning: 3606 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated

This is nothing to worry about.  It seems to me that there is a newfs
option to allocate these unallocated sectors, but I don't recall which
it is.