From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 15:02:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA01152 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:02:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA01121 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 15:01:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA23015; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:57:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199604242157.OAA23015@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FWD: FreeBSD 2.1 and Syquest EZ135 To: andy.smith@reuters.com (Andy Smith) Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 14:57:16 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, andy.smith@MR.RIT.REUTERS.COM, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <5055310924041996/A04177/REOA1/11A4C25F3600*@MHS> from "Andy Smith" at Apr 24, 96 09:31:55 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > The drive is IDE, not SCSI. What I was after was a way of telling > newfs and disklabel that the drive is a 135Mb device to override the > system settings. Any ideas would be muchly appreciated. You can override for disklabel by making a disktabe entry that gives a smaller total number of sectors. Are you certain the geometry repotred by the WD controller interface "query geometry" says 270M? If so, you may have a firmware problem. In any case, the disklabel will override the raw device size, if necessary. If you are using an unlabeled device as an FS, you can give the "-s " argument to newfs to cause it to use only a portion of the space the driver thinks is available. Either approach will workaround the problem, which wants to be fixed either in the driver, the device jumpers, the device recognition code in the BSD driver, or the drive firmware (depending on who's actually lying about the size of the disk). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.