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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 1995 01:18:37 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "House of Debuggin'" <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 0412 SNAP install hangs after 'changing root device ...'
Message-ID:  <199504280518.BAA01222@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199504280029.KAA11445@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Apr 28, 95 10:29:03 am

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They say this Bruce Evans person was kidding when he wrote:

> >> 3. During the install of 0412 newfs produces the following warning 
> >> message 'Calculated sectors per cylinder 4096 disagrees with disklabel 
> >> (2046). No other warnings/errors are produced during the install.
> 
> >I think this is possibly a clue..
> 
> Probably not.  This is a normal warning.  newfs now always uses 4096
> sectors per cylinder by default.
> 
> Bruce
> 

Y'know, I see this same message whenever I mount my swap partition
as an mfs filesystem on /tmp, and I saw it today when trying to newfs
a floppy. At least in the case of the floppy, this caused me all
sorts of grief until I forced it to use 36 sectors per cylinder with
a command line option (4096 sectors per cylinder on a 1.44 meg floppy?
yer kidding, right?). Could somebody please explain to me what's so 
normal about this value?

-Bill

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