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From: paul@tvt-k (Paul Pries)
Subject: Re: Disktype for Quantum SCSI?
Organization: >Televerket Utbildning, Utf
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 07:31:50 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Feb17.073150.17740@tvt-k>
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storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes:



>I wish to disklabel my Quantum 170MB SCSI disk and add it as the second
>disk in the system.

>However, I don't have any disktype information on it from the disktab file.
>Do I have pretty much have to go find out the information myself and put it
>in the disktab file, or has somebody compiled a list of these things...?

Have you tried "disklabel -r -e sd<whatever>"?
Just edit the number of cylinders and the interleave. It should do.

Both my disks have 512 bytes/sec, 32 sec/trk and 64 trk/cyl.
These are faked values but they work with the 1542B.

>Thanks!

You're welcome.
>TOodlepip!
>Marc 'em.
>-- 
>  storm@cs.mcgill.ca           McGill P.O.W Camp         "Oh crap---It's not
>  Marc Wandschneider           Montreal, CANADA             random enough"
>	Any opinions expressed are not mine, but those of the Demon Lord
>      Yeegeheeegenogohugu who possessed me whilst I munched on Raisin Bran.

/Paul.
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Paul Pries
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