[x-post from port-vax] HSD05 formatting

From: meltie <lists_at_microvax.org>
Date: Fri Mar 12 04:19:49 2004

On Friday 12 March 2004 03:11, Paul Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, meltie wrote:
> > However, I don't know how to partition these disks under NetBSD - i've
> > had a bit of a fiddle with disklabel but quite frankly I get a bit
> > lost, and most of the time disklabel locks up on me anyway - I suspect
> > this is because it cannot know the true geometry of the disk it is
> > talking to, but that's just a supposition...
>
> What kind of disks are they in the HSD? There are disklabels around for
> a variety of older DEC drives which can be applied to netbsd or you can
> manufacture one yourself with the total block size and a couple of other
> factors.

They're RZ28s, although the HSD's reporting them all as RF72 disks. Which
one should I be trying to label them as?


> You can often disklabel a smaller label onto a larger disk. You will
> have some unusable space but it will get the disk labelled.
>
> What OS do you have doing the disklabel?

NetBSD 1.5.2 :)

alex/melt
Received on Fri Mar 12 2004 - 04:19:49 GMT