From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 20 20:17:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA02973 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 20:17:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from baygull.rtd.com (baygull.rtd.com [198.102.68.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA02957 for ; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 20:17:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (from news@localhost) by baygull.rtd.com (8.6.9/8.6.9.1) id VAA14168; Tue, 20 Feb 1996 21:17:02 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org Path: freefall.freebsd.org!owner-freebsd-questions From: jerry@kcis.com (Jerry Kendall) Newsgroups: rtd.freebsd.questions Subject: Re: fdisk'ing the Syquest EZ-135 Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 20:33:47 -0500 (EST) Organization: Kendall Communications & Information Services, Toronto, Canada Lines: 41 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: seagull.rtd.com 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 > > >