Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 09:34:17 -0600 (MDT) From: kirk@ve6kik.ampr.ab.ca (Kirk Davis) To: cowan@cyberport.com (Cowan Bowman) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball ST 3.2 Gig SCSI Message-ID: <m0wpy01-000S0AC@ve6kik.ampr.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970717191527.6874E-100000@hippo.cyberport.com> from Cowan Bowman at "Jul 17, 97 07:24:11 pm"
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> I've been haveing trouble getting my Quantum Fireball ST 3.2 Gig SCSI
> drive formatted without it locking up the OS. It usually locks up about
> 1/3rd through the newfs procedure.
>
> I'm sure out of all the FreeBSD users, there has to be some users that
> have successfully formatted there drive. Could some kind soul possibly
> send me a copy of there disklabel for their Quantum Fireball ST 3.2 drive?
> I have a feeling my drive geometry in the disklabel may be incorrect.
> I've tried using the defaults that my Symbios Controller thinks the
> geometry is and even used the setting from Quantums spec sheets, but the
> newfs command gets about 1/3rd through the cyliners before freezing up.
>
> Thanks for any help, and if I can offer more information to help with my
> problem please ask and I'll come up with the details.
I didn't have any problems with mine. It seemed to plug and chug. Here is
the output from disklabel.
# /dev/rsd0c:
type: SCSI
disk: sd0s1
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 390
sectors/unit: 6281352
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: 65536 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4*)
b: 151568 65536 swap # (Cyl. 4*- 13*)
c: 6281352 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 390*)
e: 1024000 217104 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 13*- 77*)
f: 5040248 1241104 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 77*- 390*)
--- Kirk
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