From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 17:34:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA23024 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:34:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from whome.planix.com (whome.planix.com [204.29.161.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA23018 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 17:34:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by whome.planix.com (Smail3.1.28.1 #38) id m0tp3Ry-00076EC; Tue, 20 Feb 96 20:34 EST Received: by mail.kcis.com (KCIS.COM-5) id UAA00536; Mon Feb 19 20:33:47 1996 Organization: Kendall Communications & Information Services, Toronto, Canada Posted-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 20:33:47 -0500 (EST) Received-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 20:33:47 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 20:33:47 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry Kendall To: Eric Eiseman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fdisk'ing the Syquest EZ-135 In-Reply-To: <96Feb20.091120est.20481-2@janus.border.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Ok here it is : cylinders 128, heads 64, sectors is 32.. On Tue, 20 Feb 1996, Jerry Kendall wrote: > > > I have the EZ135 at home, I will check with my setup and report back. > > BTW: it should be 128 cylinders... > > On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Eric Eiseman wrote: > > > > > I finally managed to play enough tricks with fdisk and disklabel to get an > > EZ135 disk mounted as a ufs device. But the kernel on bootup and fdisk > > always think that it has 1024 cylinders, and I keep having to retell it the > > correct number of 512 (I get 1024 even with the -r switch to read directly > > from the disk). > > > > Any thoughts as to why this is happening? > > > > > > Eric Eiseman > > acolyte@uoknor.edu > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Any comments or opinions in this message are my own and may or may not reflect > the comments or opinions of my present or previous employers. > > Jerry Kendall Border Network Technologies Inc. > System Software Engineer Tel +1-416-368-7157 ext 303 > jerry@border.com Fax +1-416-368-7178 > > >