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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!aw2t+ From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: disktab question Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1993 10:38:19 -0400 Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 23 Message-ID: <Ug6njPq00WB582L5V=@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: po2.andrew.cmu.edu In-Reply-To: <1vebbh$1vs@stimpy.css.itd.umich.edu> Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.386bsd.questions: 13-Jun-93 disktab question by Alex Tang@css.itd.umich. > Hi all, sorry if this is another faq, but I didn't seem to find an answer in > the faq. Where is the disktab entry for my seagate 1144A drive in my disktab > file? When I installe NetBSD, it produced it on the screen, I remember that! > But now I can't find it anywhere in the files. someone please tell me I'm not > going insane! :/ With 386bsd at least (I run netbsd, but didn't use the install) you have to write your own to the /etc/disktab file. You can find all of the parameters of interest by doing a disktab /dev/wd0 (or /dev/wd1) and reading all of the infomation. The disktab file has pretty good comments at the top, and by looking at other entries its not to hard to figure it all out... DO be careful when redisklabeling your drive however...if you get some of the variables in disktab wrong you could mess up how bsd looks at your drive (although it is probably fixable by disklabeling correctly again)... alex