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From: bob@obiwan.uucp
Subject: Re: FreeBsd + Syquest 88MB Drv
References: <2ddflb$jkc@micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu>
Organization: Bob's Place, Austin, Tx
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 02:33:52 GMT
Message-ID: <CHA9su.w5@obiwan.uucp>
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In article <2ddflb$jkc@micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu>,
Shawn F. Mckay <shawn@MICRO-HEART-OF-GOLD.MIT.EDU> wrote:
>OS: FreeBsd 1.0-Epsilon
>HW: Vmax-340/486DLC, IDE WD2340 (root/usr), 8Meg memory
> SVGA, 3COM Network Card.
>
>Howdy, I'm trying to use an 88Mb Syquest drive here with an Adaptec
>AHA1542C Controller. It seems to mostly work however when I try to
>copy files onto the drive (i.e. "cp -r src /mnt", it gets LOTS of
>"aha0: device 0 timed out" messages and even a few "aha0: MBO not
>free" messages yet still SEEMS to work ok. (However takes a LONG time
>to copy).
>
>Has anyone else tried this combo? Or have any suggestions? Also,
>is there an "official" database for disk tab entries, I bullied
>the install script off the fs disk to help me create a disktab
>entry the easy way, but sure would have been nice to just "grab"
>one :-)...
I am running a system here (still on 386bsd 0.1.2.4, though :-( with a
SyQuest 88MB drive connected to a AHA-1542B. Seems to work just fine.
Output from ``disklabel -r'' for the device is as follows:
# /dev/rsd1d:
type: SCSI
disk: syq88
label: SyQuest #1
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 49
tracks/cylinder: 2
sectors/cylinder: 98
cylinders: 1766
rpm: 3220
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0
4 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 173068 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 1765)
c: 173068 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1765)
d: 173068 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1765)
ksh: disklabel: not found
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