Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!news.eunet.no!nuug!dkuug!dde!kim 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 Lines: 25 storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes: [lines deleted] > 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 -- -- Kim Andersen @ Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark. E-mail: kim@dde.dk or ...!uunet!mcsun!dkuug!dde!kim