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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] How to add 4.3GB disk (Quantum XP34300)?
Date: 9 Jul 1996 21:02:02 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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franky@pinewood.nl (Frank ten Wolde) wrote:
> Debugger("Slice code got a negative blocknumber") called
>
> I suspect there is a problem with the drive geometry (I used the
> default 4104 cyls, 64 heads, 32 sectors).
Unlikely. The geometry is not much used since you don't boot from
this disk. Remember, SCSI disks are being addressed in terms of
logical blocks, and Unix device drivers are being addressed in terms
of logical blocks.
> I tried to create:
>
> slice 1 FreeBSD 4251648 blocks (2076MB)
> slice 2 FreeBSD 2867200 blocks (1400MB)
> slice 3 unused 1286144 blocks ( 628MB)
I wonder why? (At least, why do you prefer two BSD slices? Do you
plan to put more than 7 partitions on it? That's the maximum that
would fit into one disklabel, given that the `c' partition is magic.)
Since the last slice seems to be unused anyway, did you ever try using
``dangerously dedicated'' mode, i.e. dedicating the entire drive
starting at block 0 to BSD?
--
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. ;-)