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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5815 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:56:48 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!wupost!emory!gatech!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!niko From: niko@iastate.edu (Nikolaus E Schuessler) Subject: * Disklabels - help please Message-ID: <C06r9D.92q@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:29:37 GMT Lines: 40 Howdy. I'm trying to write a disk label onto a floppy (from a non-unix os), which I could do if I knew what to write... Here is a description of the drive (for 400k ug): Tracks Sectors/Trk 0-15 12 16-31 11 32-47 10 48-63 9 64-79 8 I guess the drive rpm is variable as well... so, what should the disktab have in it? Should I make descriptive disknames like 'floppy800' and 'floppy1440' and just know from the type that this is the scheme? I could do something like: ns=10 nt=1 nc=80 se=512 so that calculations for total disk space would come out correctly... (a disk doesn't really have cylinders... right?) Also, what partitons should a floppy have? just an `a' or `c' partition (making the others 0 length)? since sector size is 512 bytes and the disk is tiny, block size = 1k and fragment size=512bytes? Or does one still want them to be 8k and 1k (respectively) like the defaults seem to be? -- Niko Schuessler Project Vincent Systems Manager email: niko@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center voice: (515) 294-1672 Ames IA 50011 snail: 272 Durham