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From: paoletti@cps.msu.edu (David R. Paoletti)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: neg free space on 1023 cyl?
Message-ID: <1992Oct10.010830.14711@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 10 Oct 92 01:08:30 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Michigan State University
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Originator: paoletti@pacific.cps.msu.edu

I am trying to reinstall 386BSD on my new machine, which
includes a Fujitsu 2266 SCSI drive.  The AHA-1542B translates
it to 1023 cyl, 64 heads, 32 sectors/track.

When I try to run the install program, it reports that my
drive has -327MB free!  Does this sound like a wrap-around
problem?  Is it that I must use disklabel on this drive?

I tried doing a 'disklabel -r as0' and it did not fill in
any values for fields such as the cylinders, etc.  Does
this only work after you've disklabel'ed the drive?

Anyone have a working disktab entry for this drive?

Thanks!
  Dave Paoletti :)