Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 13:16:04 +1100 (EST) From: Paul Reece <paul@trumpet.net.au> To: bmk@dtr.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is this something to worry about? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951115131530.379A-100000@jazz> In-Reply-To: <199511150151.RAA05844@dtr.com>
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On Tue, 14 Nov 1995 bmk@dtr.com wrote: > > > I've just got the new SCSI drive going by writing my own disktab - sysinstall > > instantly panic'ed whenever I tried using it to do this.. > > > anyway, when doing newfs I get: > > > newfs: /dev/sd0a: not a character-special device > > You need to use /dev/rsd0a > > > Warning: calculated sectors per cylinder (4096) disagrees with disk label > > (1440) > > This is normal on SCSI disks. > > > Warning: 3606 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated > > This is nothing to worry about. It seems to me that there is a newfs > option to allocate these unallocated sectors, but I don't recall which > it is. > its ok.. I just made sure that my partition sizes were a multiple of 4096. Didn't have to bother with rsd0 either - seemed to pick it up itself. Thanks, Paul.
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