From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 10:46:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA01902 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:46:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.vcr.istar.ca (mail.vcr.iSTAR.ca [204.191.152.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA01892 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:46:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from kevin.sunshine.net [204.191.205.47] by mail.vcr.istar.ca with smtp (Exim 1.58 #2) id 0w4t1a-0002cm-00; Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:45:19 -0800 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 10:40:08 -0800 (PST) From: "kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net" To: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Are my IDE parameters set correctly? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello again, Could anyone please comment on these outputs on my Maxtor IDE drive? I am confused because after having system failures resulting from read errors I searched for current FAQS and through Question Archives and I am not sure if the fsize and bsize in disklabel should be set differently or remain as is. * Note: System running with Ontrack Disk Manager 7.02 kevin# fdisk ******* Working on device /dev/rwd0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=526 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=526 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl) Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 0 is: sysid 84,(unknown) start 9, size 2120823 (1035 Meg), flag 80 beg: cyl 0/ sector 10/ head 0; end: cyl 55/ sector 63/ head 15 The data for partition 1 is: The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: kevin# disklabel -r /dev/rwd0s3 # /dev/rwd0s3: type: ESDI disk: wd0s3 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 4032 cylinders: 316 sectors/unit: 1274112 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 - 16*) b: 41120 65536 swap # (Cyl. 16*- 26*) c: 1274112 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 315) e: 61440 106656 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 26*- 41*) f: 1106016 168096 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 41*- 315*) kevin# newfs -N /dev/rwd0s3 /dev/rwd0s3: 65536 sectors in 16 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors 32.0MB in 1 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 7680 i/g) super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: 32, I'm not sure if this is the source of the problem or if this is a common limitation with my particular drive. Any and all comments welcome.