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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
From: ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz)
Subject: Re: Help with (ugh!) Geometry
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 05:05:44 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) writes:
: 
: > 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:
: 
: Btw., in FreeBSD-current, you can simply do
: 
: 	disklabel -r -w sd1 auto
: 	disklabel -e sd1

Best news I've heard in quite some time.  Next time you're in
New York City, I'll buy the beer.  :-)

Chris
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