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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Disktab Entry for Seagate 410800N Date: 5 Nov 1995 22:23:22 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 37 Message-ID: <47ja0a$j90@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <Pine.BSD.3.91.951101062846.10063A-100000@alpha.jpunix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit John A. Perry <perry@alpha.jpunix.com> wrote: > Does anyone out there know the correct disktab entry for a Seagate >ST410800N/ND? There's no such thing like *the* disktab entry for a particular disk. Unfortunately, disktab entries do serve two purposes: they specify the parameters of the disk, and the partitioning. Since many people would like to have a disk partitioned in many ways, there's no cook-recipe. Actually, all you need is a single parameter: the total number of blocks on your disk. It is announced at boot time, so getting this one is actually simple. The followig example illustrates this by usinge 80386 :) sectors as a `fake' value. Enter what you want into your disktab entry, there are only very few constraints for a SCSI disk: st410800:Seagate ST410800N/ND:\ :ty=winchester:dt=scsi:\ :su#80386:\ :oc#0:pc#80386: assign the remaining partitions as you like, and then disklabel -r -w -B sdXXX st410800 newfs -d0 /dev/rsdXXXa (newfs -d0 /dev/rsdXXXe ...) We don't need no steenkin' geometries. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)