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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with (ugh!) Geometry
Date: 23 Jan 1996 23:33:28 GMT
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craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) writes:

> I tried this with my ST-43400N and it would not write a disklabel until I 
> entered: ns, nt, and nc.  Notice I did define su but disklabel ignored it.
> 
> st443400n|Seagate ST-43400N: \
>         :ty=winchester:dt=SCSI:su#5688447:\
>         :ns#99:nt#21:nc#2735:rm#5400:\
>         :ob#5620000:pb#64000:tb=swap:\
>         :oc#0:pc#5688447:\
>         :oh#0:ph#5620000:th=4.2BSD:bh#8192:fh#1024:

Btw., in FreeBSD-current, you can simply do

	disklabel -r -w sd1 auto
	disklabel -e sd1

-- 
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. ;-)