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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.dfn.de!news.uni-jena.de!news.HRZ.HAB-Weimar.DE!News.HTWM.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: Conner 4gig 7200 RPM drive Date: 17 Jan 1996 01:31:57 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4dhjid$r9@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DL4LBE.F6F@ritz.mordor.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 ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes: > I'm helping someone add one of these disks to a FreeBSD 2.1 box. > I can't seem to find enough information from the drive specs > to generate a useful disktab entry for the drive. I checked > the FAQ and it seems to rely on the fact that the user has > a valid disktab to partition and label the disk. All you need is the total number of sectors. It's being announced at boot time. Add this figure as the su# capability into the disktab entry, i think you will also have to invent figures for ns#, nt#, and nc# (though they are largely irrelevant if su# is present), make your `c' partition start at offset 0 and exactly the same length. This should get you up&flying to use disklabel -e for the rest. -- 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. ;-)