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From: kim@dde.dk (Kim Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Adding a second Hard Drive
Message-ID: <1993Oct2.012022.6231@dde.dk>
Date: 2 Oct 93 01:20:22 GMT
References: <7YSHB19D@math.fu-berlin.de> <28huov$4bf@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S
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storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
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>	1.  To set up an etc/disktab entry for the drive, you need the
>	following information:

>	    a. Sector size.  For every drive I have seen, this is 512 (bytes)
		             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Well, I've seen disk's with other sector sizes, especially 1024 bytes.

The important part is that 386BSD/FreeBSD ??/NetBSD *WILL NOT* accept other
sector sizes than 512 bytes.
The SCSI driver gives you a kind warning/error message that it's
not supported. I guess the same holds for IDE and other disk types.

(As I don't use FreeBSD it's only guess work, but FreeBSD
and NetBSD both uses Julian's SCSI driver)

Just another happy NetBSD hacker !!!!!!

regards
kim
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