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#! rnews 1506 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.mathworks.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q. Drive Spec Defaults and Impacts? Date: 20 Nov 1995 20:46:21 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <48qpet$i70@times.tfs.com> References: <48lsre$162@mail.Rogers.Com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <48lsre$162@mail.Rogers.Com>, Benjamin Lau <blau@mail.rogers.com> wrote: :During the initial FBSD (2.0.5/2.1) installation from the floopy disk, :all the disks are labled (by disklabel) using some default parameters, :such as RPM, the device name etc. These defaults values can be :retrieved, after the installation, by using '/sbin/disklabel -r :sd<x>'. What I found is that, on the first SCSI drive where I put my :system files, the RPM is defaulted to 3600RPM and the other two SCSI :drives on the same system are defaulted to 0RPM. And in fact, when I :do a '/sbin/disklabel' on those drives, it gives a warning about that :"zero RPM". you can use disklabel -e to change this if it worries you.. these figures are presently not of great importance.. It is possible (but unlikely) that they might hav influenced the parameters used for the newfs, but newfs these days tries to use a ficticious geometry (which works better) anyway.. :