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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.bri.connect.com.au!fjholden.OntheNet.com.au!news From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Iomega JAZ disktab entries anyone??? Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 16:59:16 +1000 Organization: On the Net (ISP on the Gold Coast, Australia) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <327D9444.3722@OntheNet.com.au> References: <55gv8j$cho@baygull.rtd.com> Reply-To: tonyg@OntheNet.com.au NNTP-Posting-Host: swanee.nt.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) To: "John L. Sackett III" <root@jsackett.slip.rtd.com> John L. Sackett III wrote: > > Just bought one, and want to use it for FreeBSD. I have a PCI NCR -825 SCSI > controller card. It recognizes the JAZ drive no problem, but the sysinstall > utility will not write the boot block. Has anyone else tried this? I sure could use a working disktab entry. You are probably running into a problem with the partition table, or lack thereof! This will require that you run fdisk and create a partition that is 'owned' by FreeBSD. The FreeBSD partition code is sysid 165. In terms of disk topology, you can probably fake something reasonable by simply using the formula- cylinders = <disk-size-in-blocks> / 2048 heads = 32 sectors = 64 or is that sect=32, heads=64 (I can't remember but it probably doesn't matter antway). Tony