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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!blackbush.xlink.net!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!server2.rz.uni-leipzig.de!news.th-zwickau.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Partitiong disks under FreeBSD (ugh) Date: 6 Oct 1995 23:42:32 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <454bco$edg@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <44vugs$qgc@nntp5.u.washington.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Clint Olsen <olsenc@kodiak.ee.washington.edu> wrote: >for things to work properly (wtf?). I have yet to >run into a system where I had to know the number of >of heads and the RPM of the disk in order to partition >and newfs a disk. Another weirdness occurred. I cannot You don't really need the RPM (unless you've got a very old drive and are keen to benefit of the ufs optimazation strategies). Any RPM value > 0 will do. In 2.0.5, there's been a bug that caused the incorrect value of 0 to be entered into the label. >(aic0:2:0): "unknown unknown ????" type 0 fixed SCSI 0 >sd1(aic0:2:0): Direct-Access 312MB (640500 512 byte sectors) Looks like the INQUIRY command failed (for unknown reason). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)