From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 15 11:37:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA08345 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mole.mole.org (marmot.mole.org [204.216.57.191]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA08340 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:37:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by mole.mole.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) id SAA27090; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 18:30:25 GMT Received: from meerkat.mole.org(206.197.192.110) by mole.mole.org via smap (V1.3) id sma027088; Sat Jun 15 18:30:23 1996 Received: (from mrm@localhost) by meerkat.mole.org (8.6.11/8.6.9) id LAA10473; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:29:53 -0700 Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:29:53 -0700 From: "M.R.Murphy" Message-Id: <199606151829.LAA10473@meerkat.mole.org> To: vazquez@IQM.Unicamp.BR, yves@CC.McGill.CA Subject: Re: IBM HD's Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, yves@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > > > > - 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): , 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