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From: franky@pinewood.nl (Frank ten Wolde)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] How to add 4.3GB disk (Quantum XP34300)?
Date: 10 Jul 96 16:59:23 GMT
Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes:
>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.
Though true! There is a problem in libdisk (file: blocks.c):
... lseek(fd, blocks * 512, 0);
When blocks > appr 2000000, the result becomes negative and the
following read/write fails!
Problem has been reported to the FreeBSD core team.
>> 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.)
I'd like to have NT on one of those partitions.
-Frank
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