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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Q. Drive Spec Defaults and Impacts? Date: 23 Nov 1995 22:47:24 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 26 Message-ID: <492tls$r6g@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <48lsre$162@mail.rogers.com> <48qpet$i70@times.tfs.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes: > :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.. That's not fully correct. disklabel(8) considers an rpm value of 0 as an error, and consequently refuses to change anything to that disk- label, including installation of a new bootstrap (disklabel -B). So use disklabel -r -e to correct the bogus value (likewise for bogus interleave values). The problem has been fixed since, recent versions (including 2.1) will always fill in reasonable defaults. -- 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. ;-)