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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!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.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: Help with (ugh!) Geometry Date: 23 Jan 1996 23:33:28 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4e3r88$6th@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4di40l$9g1@spectator.cris.com> <4djvs4$d6u@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4dts64$8pn@venus.os.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 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 -- 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. ;-)