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From: Paul Reece <paul@trumpet.net.au>
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Subject: Re: is this something to worry about?
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On Tue, 14 Nov 1995 bmk@dtr.com wrote:

> 
> > 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.
> 

its ok.. I just made sure that my partition sizes were a multiple of 4096.

Didn't have to bother with rsd0 either - seemed to pick it up itself.

Thanks,
Paul.