Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:29:53 -0700 From: "M.R.Murphy" <mrm@Mole.ORG> To: vazquez@IQM.Unicamp.BR, yves@CC.McGill.CA Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, yves@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA Subject: Re: IBM HD's Message-ID: <199606151829.LAA10473@meerkat.mole.org>
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> > > > > > - Quantum Fireball > > > > I could partition the disks no problem and I could do a bad block scan > > with also no problem. Problems began when I created the Unix filesystems. > > > > First, I'd get an error message that FreeBSD couldn't swap on > > wd0s2b because the device is not configured. Then, the creation > > of a filesystem on wd0a would fail. Just as if the labeler > > didn't know how to access these disks. > > > Hmmm, I don't know about SCSI but the IDE 1.08 Quantum Fireball works > just fine for me : > > wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): <QUANTUM FIREBALL1080A>, 32-bit, multi-block-8 > wd1: 1039MB (2128896 sectors), 2112 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > it the fastest IDE we run here > A Fireball SCSI 1.08 works for me. I use the whole drive for FreeBSD. Adaptec 1542B, AMD DX4/120. Right now it's a non-boot drive, though I used it in the past as a boot drive. meerkat# disklabel -r sd1 # /dev/rsd1c: type: SCSI disk: qp1080s3 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 1042 sectors/unit: 2134016 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] a: 65536 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 31) b: 65536 65536 swap # (Cyl. 32 - 63) c: 2134016 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1041) d: 2134016 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1041) e: 2002944 131072 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 64 - 1041) h: 2134016 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 1041) meerkat# -- Mike Murphy mrm@Mole.ORG +1 619 598 5874
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