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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1423 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:41:14 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!news.netmbx.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sunic!seunet!tvt-k!paul From: paul@tvt-k (Paul Pries) Subject: Re: Disktype for Quantum SCSI? Organization: >Televerket Utbildning, Utf Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 07:31:50 GMT Message-ID: <1993Feb17.073150.17740@tvt-k> References: <C2JqoG.CvM@cs.mcgill.ca> Lines: 32 storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider) writes: >I wish to disklabel my Quantum 170MB SCSI disk and add it as the second >disk in the system. >However, I don't have any disktype information on it from the disktab file. >Do I have pretty much have to go find out the information myself and put it >in the disktab file, or has somebody compiled a list of these things...? Have you tried "disklabel -r -e sd<whatever>"? Just edit the number of cylinders and the interleave. It should do. Both my disks have 512 bytes/sec, 32 sec/trk and 64 trk/cyl. These are faked values but they work with the 1542B. >Thanks! You're welcome. >TOodlepip! >Marc 'em. >-- > storm@cs.mcgill.ca McGill P.O.W Camp "Oh crap---It's not > Marc Wandschneider Montreal, CANADA random enough" > Any opinions expressed are not mine, but those of the Demon Lord > Yeegeheeegenogohugu who possessed me whilst I munched on Raisin Bran. /Paul. -- Paul Pries email: 5322@msg.abc.se