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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rkb55989 From: rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal Boni) Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Disk Geometry? Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 21:47:29 GMT Message-ID: <C80KJ6.C14@news.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <C7oMvJ.Lsn@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 29 dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes: >I am getting ready to install NetBSD this weekend. I read INSTALL >notes, and scaned FAQ, but am still unclear on disk geometry for >my Quantum LPS240 SCSI drive. >My sectors/track is NOT a constant. It varies from 44 sectors/track >on the inner tracks to 87 sectors/track on the outer tracks. Uh-huh.... I'm having the same problem with my PD700S... The numbers are different, the idea the same... >386BSD 0.1 installed fine, and of course there was no prompt(s) >regarding disk geometry at install time. With NetBSD, though, I >am kind of lost. I have the Tech Ref for my drive, and it covers >everything! Still, I am not sure what the NetBSD install program >needs. (Does it show that I don't know "disklabel" too well?) >ANY pointers indicating where I can read up on NetBSD install on >SCSI, or any help at all would sure be appreciated! At this time, >I do NOT have a working ***BSD system - no man pages are available. >-- >============================================================================== > phil perucci | "Any opinions expressed are my views, > dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil | not the position of any organization" >============================================================================== Rafal