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#! rnews 1940 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-paris.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.sarenet.es!news From: Borja Marcos <borjamar@sarenet.es> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Tahiti MO drive disks? Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 21:20:25 +0100 Organization: SAREnet,SA. Lines: 22 Message-ID: <331F2709.41C67EA6@sarenet.es> References: <5feo79$moq@news.ox.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: infovia-b-11.sarenet.es Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36680 Neil J Long wrote: > > Hi > I have an older Tahiti II (and a newer III but that is spoken for!) and have > always used 512-bytes/sector disks on SGI's but wondered if anyone could > comment on the 1024-bytes/sector disks with FreeBSD 2.x. > Do disks have to be based on 512-byte blocks? man newfs suggests this is > wise!? Yes, you need 512 bytes/sector disks. Borja. -- *********************************************************************** Borja Marcos * Internet: borjam@we.lc.ehu.es Alangoeta, 11 1 izq * borjam@well.com 48990 - Algorta (Vizcaya) * borjamar@sarenet.es SPAIN * CompuServe: 100015,3502 *********************************************************************** NOTE TO BULK EMAIL SENDERS: When I receive an unsolicited advertisement, I take some time to send complaints not only to your service provider, but to the next level providers who serve your ISP.