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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Format a 2.1GB IDE Drive Date: 16 Jan 1996 11:23:29 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4dg1rh$gtb@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4d8pjg$cgm@umbc7.umbc.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 pauld@umbc.edu (Paul Danckaert) writes: > I just put a new 2.1 GB IDE drive into a 2.1.0 system, and am having > problems with formatting the disk. I think I may have to update the > disktab file, but am not sure what I should put in there. Any ideas > or recomendations? Get the total number of sectors for the drive, it's announced at boot time. Say it's 4234855, so create: mydisk|My brand new disk:\ :ty=winchester:dt=SCSI:\ :su#4234855:\ :oc#0:pc#4234855:\ :oe#0:pe#4234855 You get the picture. Of course, you could select any other partitioning, or you could entirely leave it out (leave only the `c' pseudo partition), disklabel -r -w the disk, and then use disklabel -e. -- 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. ;-)