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Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 1995 17:51:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      bmk@dtr.com
To:        paul@trumpet.net.au (Paul Reece)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: is this something to worry about?
Message-ID:  <199511150151.RAA05844@dtr.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951115122514.2709A-100000@jazz> from "Paul Reece" at Nov 15, 95 12:27:22 pm

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> I've just got the new SCSI drive going by writing my own disktab - sysinstall
> instantly panic'ed whenever I tried using it to do this..

> anyway, when doing newfs I get:

> newfs: /dev/sd0a: not a character-special device

You need to use /dev/rsd0a

> Warning: calculated sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label 
> (1440)

This is normal on SCSI disks.

> Warning: 3606 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated

This is nothing to worry about.  It seems to me that there is a newfs
option to allocate these unallocated sectors, but I don't recall which
it is.




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