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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!news.stealth.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Kernel panics: Hard disk Date: 28 Sep 1996 18:00:45 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <52jp4d$8s@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3245CA78.3CA1@worldnet.att.net> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Vijay/Mrudula Konkimalla <vjmrudula@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > 1. Kernel is recompiled to support psm mouse. > "cat < /dev/psm0" > stdin resource temporarily unavailable. (something like that) > ( Although I can use the mouse, I would like to know why ? ) What do you expect from cat'ing the device? > 2. FreeBSD detects the size of harddisk to be only 1039 rather than 1089. 1089 * 1E6 bytes == 1038 MB: j@uriah 104% echo 'scale = 1; 1089 * 1000000 / 2 ^ 20' | bc 1038.5 The disk vendors prefer the 1E6 definition for `mega' (since the figure looks bigger), while the technicians prefer the 2^20 definition. -- 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. ;-)