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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: newfs fails
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Distribution: inet
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1993 18:14:21 GMT
Message-ID: <C39xBy.2J@sugar.neosoft.com>
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In article <1mrm6dINNkc5@sauna.cs.hut.fi> vendu@batman.cs.hut.fi (Tuomo Petteri Ven{l{inen) writes:
> I had 386bsd running for some time. Then I decided to change my hard disk's
> (Miniscribe 9380, a 336MB ESDI) jumpers so that I could format it 36 sectors
> per track instead of 35. After making the disklabel 'newfs rwd0a' did the
> following:
> /dev/rwd0a: 534600 sectors in 990 cylinders of 15 tracks, 36 sectors
^^^--- Red Flag.
> 273.7MB in 62 cyl groups (16 c/g, 4.42MB/g, 1024 i/g)
The 9380E supports 1220 cylinders. The head/sector count looks right. I
have a 9380E formatted like that right now (though I'm using a Maxtor
4380E for my work disk until I get cables in for my expansion box).
I'm using 35 sectors, though, and the extra sector is for bad block mapping.
My current drive has no unmapped bad blocks as a result. You may well want
to go back...
--
Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
`-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään?
'U`
Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.