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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.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: Tahiti II MO disk Date: 7 Mar 1997 00:04:47 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5fnm2v$282@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5ff5je$32j@news.ox.ac.uk> 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 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36711 Neil Long <neil.long@materials.oxford.ac.uk> wrote: > Could someone help with using a Tahiti II drive on FreeBSD? > Is it possible? 2.2-GAMMA. Sure. The probably simplest way is disklabel -Brw od0 auto disklabel -e od0 However, since MOs are ``real disks'' and probably have a uniform geometry, you might get better by actually using this geometry. This is best done with an entry for /etc/disktab. > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=29193 heads=1 sectors/track=31 (31 blks/cyl) Assuming these values are correct, use: mo440|440 MB MOD|\ :ty=removable:dt=SCSI:se#512:nt#1:ns#31:nc#29193:ts#1:rm#4800:\ :pc#904982:oc#0:\ :pa#904982:oa#0:ta=4.2BSD:ba#8192:fa#1024: And then (after labelling), use -u0 -t0 for your newfs command. -- 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. ;-)