From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 17 00:29:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA02263 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 00:29:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ritig1.rit.reuters.com (ritig1.rit.reuters.com [199.171.195.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA02258 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 00:29:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ritig4.rit.reuters.com by ritig1.rit.reuters.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Sep94-0947PM) id AA31265; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 03:31:57 -0400 Received: from mr.rit.reuters.com by RITIG4.RIT.REUTERS.COM (PMDF V4.3-10 #7805) id <01I3MTM1QA34001PF3@RITIG4.RIT.REUTERS.COM>; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 03:29:25 -0500 (EST) Received: with PMDF-MR; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 08:28:47 EST Mr-Received: by mta REOA.MUAS; Relayed; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 08:28:47 -0500 Mr-Received: by mta REOA2; Relayed; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 08:28:46 -0500 Mr-Received: by mta RITIG4; Relayed; Wed, 17 Apr 1996 08:29:21 -0500 Disclose-Recipients: prohibited Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 08:28:47 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Smith Subject: FreeBSD 2.1, Formatting of SyQuest drive To: questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <2447280817041996/A02637/REOA2/11A48A1C2E00*@MHS> Autoforwarded: false Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Importance: normal Priority: normal Sensitivity: Company-Confidential Ua-Content-Id: 11A48A1C2E00 X400-Mts-Identifier: [;2447280817041996/A02637/REOA2] Hop-Count: 2 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk OK, After must trial and deliberation, I give in:-( Can you please help with the following.. System:- FreeBSD 2.1, running on Pentium PC, 850Mb IDE HD(drive 0), 32Mb RAM, Mitsumi IDE CD-ROM, SyQuest EZ135 (drive 1), Rebuilt kernel for IDE devices and 2 x DE435 Ether cards, Dec DE435 PCI Ether cards (de0 de1). Problem 1 - On install the system reports the EZ135 as being 270Mb, rather than 135Mb, it reports 1024 cyl rather than 512. I have overcome this by manual intervention, but is there a proper work around?? Problem 2 - How do I format and initialise a new EZ135 cartridge from the root CLI?? I have tried various things, but to no avail. Is there a defined type or devices entry for an EZ135?? Thanks in advance Andy