Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 11:23:11 CST From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> To: rstrickler@thrunet.net (Robert J. Strickler) Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: howto install 9G ST410800W? Message-ID: <199703111723.LAA28921@solaria.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <01BC2D98.87AA5FE0@windozer.thrunet.net> from "Robert J. Strickler" at Mar 11, 97 11:15:41 am
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> What do we need to specify to get FreeBSD to use the entire > capacioty of a Seagate ST410800W 9GB drive? > news@nns1:{1} fdisk -i /dev/rsd0 ^^^^ Why do I get the feeling that what you REALLY want to do is to go out and buy yourself half a dozen 2GB drives? > ******* Working on device /dev/rsd0 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=4926 heads=27 sectors/track=133 (3591 blks/cyl) I have some Microp's here which work just fine. I follow one of the normal conventions and force fdisk to use X/64/32 geometries.. ******* Working on device /dev/rsd10 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=8681 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) > The data for partition 3 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 1, size 17689265 (8637 Meg), flag 80 > beg: cyl 0/ sector 2/ head 0; > end: cyl 830/ sector 1/ head 0 > Do you want to change it? [n] n sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 32, size 17778656 (8680 Meg), flag 80 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 1023/ sector 32/ head 63 I always start at sector 1 head 1, end at 32/63 > # /dev/rsd0c: > type: SCSI > disk: ST4108 > label: NewsAlt > flags: > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/track: 133 > tracks/cylinder: 27 > sectors/cylinder: 3591 > cylinders: 4925 > sectors/unit: 17689265 > 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] > c: 17689265 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4925*) > h: 17689263 2 4.2BSD 512 63488 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 4925*) That bsize looks a tad wild. # /dev/rsd10c: type: SCSI disk: sd10s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 8680 sectors/unit: 17778656 rpm: 7200 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] c: 17778656 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 8680*) e: 17778656 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 8680*) This is a bit different, usually I start 'e' at cylinder 1 and end at the last full cylinder (i.e. Cyl. 1-8679) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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