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From: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help with (ugh!) Geometry
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 96 12:08:25 GMT
Organization: Shrimpton Consulting
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References: <4di40l$9g1@spectator.cris.com> <4djvs4$d6u@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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In article <4djvs4$d6u@uriah.heep.sax.de>,
j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
>
>If you are going to dedicate your drives entirely to FreeBSD, and you
>happen to run FreeBSD >= 2.1R, simply select the ``dangerously
>dedicated'' option in the partitioning menu. (This is the non-default
>answer after selecting A)ll disk for FreeBSD.) This should get you
>going without ever thinking about something like a geometry again.
>
I tried this with my ST-43400N and it would not write a disklabel until I
entered: ns, nt, and nc. Notice I did define su but disklabel ignored it.
st443400n|Seagate ST-43400N: \
:ty=winchester:dt=SCSI:su#5688447:\
:ns#99:nt#21:nc#2735:rm#5400:\
:ob#5620000:pb#64000:tb=swap:\
:oc#0:pc#5688447:\
:oh#0:ph#5620000:th=4.2BSD:bh#8192:fh#1024:
-Craig
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