More on setting-up Sun3 from tape

From: Richard A. Cini <rcini_at_email.msn.com>
Date: Mon Mar 23 18:57:33 1998

    Well, I resolved the tape drive access problem on my Sun3 workstation.
Although no other device on the SCSI chain is terminated, the Sun3 does not
like the DD50 passive terminator that I have on the end of the chain; it
will only access the drives on the chain without it.

    Anyway, I can now load the tape boot image and start the mini-kernel.
Really, the question that I have today is related to the "edlabel"
partitioning program. Although the following results from using edlabel, the
question is more about disk partitioning in Unix.

    The drive is a 330mb SCSI hard drive with the following geometry: 512
bytes/sect, 32 sect/trk, 15 trk/cyl, 1254 cyl (as reported; maybe should be
1408 cyls?). Running edlabel reports the following:

                start c/t/s blks c/t/s
type
a(root) 0 0/0/0 29297 61/00/17 4.2BSD /* 15mb
boot
b(swap) 0 0/0/0 0 0/0/0 swap /*
swap (would like this to be ~10mb)
c(disk) 0 0/0/0 601920 1254/0/0 unused /* disk
d(user) 0 0/0/0 0 0/0/0 unused
/* user


    I can create the root partition (and write it to the disk as shown
above) with no problem, but I cannot create the swap and user partitions. I
get the following error: "ioctl DIOCWDINFO: invalid argument".

    This is the first Unix drive that I'm setting-up in a non-automated
fashion; can anyone give me the benefits of their experience in doing this??
Thanks!


Rich Cini/WUGNET
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