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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!cass.ma02.bull.com!think.com!paperboy.osf.org!enterpoop.mit.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!mcsun!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: Has anybody installed 386bsd on a >1gb SCSI drive? In-Reply-To: sam@csi.compuserve.com's message of Tue, 20 Apr 1993 02: 34:04 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Apr21220810@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <C5rGGw.BH3@csi.compuserve.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 22:08:10 GMT Lines: 33 I've had no trouble, and I also have a MAXSTOR P1-17 (though I boot off of a 1.01GB DEC drive now, for speed). Did you also format the drive with Adaptec's format utility? I found that to be necessary before the silly thing would let me fdisk it. Here's the translations I'm using.. # /dev/rsd1d: type: SCSI disk: disk2 label: maxstor flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 87 tracks/cylinder: 19 sectors/cylinder: 1653 cylinders: 1778 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 3 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 2936593 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1776*) c: 2936593 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1776*) Jordan -- Jordan Hubbard Lotus Development Ireland jkh@whisker.lotus.ie