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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!sundog.tiac.net!spoon.beta.com!mcgovern From: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian McGovern) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: disktab problems.... Date: 16 Sep 1994 18:19:49 GMT Organization: B.E.T.A. Mountain, Framingham, MA Lines: 36 Message-ID: <35cnk5$n8b@sundog.tiac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: spoon.beta.com I feel really stupid for posting this, as I feel that I'm just asking someone to double-check my math for me, but I'm having problems... I've created a disktab for an IDE drive that I have thats 901cyl, 5 heads, 53 sec. I was a small ~70000 sector swap partition, and the rest to be a mountable user partion. The disktab entry that I came up with was: QUANTUM_LPS:\ :dt=ST506:ty=winchester: :nc#901:ns#53:nt#5:\ :se#512:\ :pa#163505:oa#265:ta=4.2BSD:ba#4096:fa#512:\ :pb#74995:ob#163770:tb=swap:\ :pc#238500:oc#265:\ :pd#238765:od#0: However, when I go to label the disk, it gives me an Unknown Error: 0 (or similar message), and reboots the machine. The question is several-fold: 1.) Is my disktab entry correct for a drive with the above dimensions? I think I followed the format correctly, and I used my 500MB drive as a working example... 2.) Do I need to fdisk, or any other bizarre thing before I disklabel? I don't remember having to the in the past. Thanks for your time. Any silly mistakes on my part is merely the result of not having a clue about what I'm doing, and making a valiant attept to get the right end of the man page up. Thanks. -Brian