From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 20 10:07:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA24576 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 10:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scapa.cs.ualberta.ca (root@scapa.cs.ualberta.ca [129.128.4.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA24565 for ; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 10:06:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ve6kik by scapa.cs.ualberta.ca with UUCP id <13071-176>; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 11:06:46 -0600 Received: by ve6kik.ampr.ab.ca via sendmail with stdio id for cowan@cyberport.com; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 09:34:17 -0600 (MDT) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #1 built 1997-Mar-5) Message-Id: From: kirk@ve6kik.ampr.ab.ca (Kirk Davis) Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball ST 3.2 Gig SCSI In-Reply-To: from Cowan Bowman at "Jul 17, 97 07:24:11 pm" To: cowan@cyberport.com (Cowan Bowman) Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 09:34:17 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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