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From: Neil Long <neil.long@materials.oxford.ac.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Tahiti II MO disk
Date: 3 Mar 1997 18:34:22 GMT
Organization: Department of Materials, University of Oxford
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Hi
Could someone help with using a Tahiti II drive on FreeBSD?
Is it possible? 2.2-GAMMA.
I just tried and it uses device od0 but I cannot get anywhere with fdisk
or disklabel - I get a lot more errors than I can make sense of.
It would be a useful starting point if I knew it works for someone else
and then I can hunt further.
I tried using a 1G (both sides for 1G) 512-bytes disk
sample of errors
/kernel.test: od0: invalid primary partition table: no magic
fdisk
******* Working on device /dev/od0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=29193 heads=1 sectors/track=31 (31 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=29193 heads=1 sectors/track=31 (31 blks/cyl)
fdisk: Invalid fdisk partition table found
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 0 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 1 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 1, size 904982 (441 Meg), flag 80
beg: cyl 0/ sector 2/ head 0;
end: cyl 520/ sector 31/ head 0
I will try it again on an SGI or a DOS machine - maybe the disk is bad.
Neil
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