Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 11:27:06 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: andy.smith@reuters.com, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FWD: FreeBSD 2.1 and Syquest EZ135 Message-ID: <199604240157.LAA13687@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199604232039.NAA20338@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 23, 96 01:39:16 pm
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > > I have a SyQuest EZ135 135Mb IDE drive on a pentium PC. Even though > > the system is configured correctly for this drive, with the right > > number of C,H,S for 135Mb, FreeBSD reports it as a 270Mb drive and > > doubles the number of cylinders. When configuring the system, I > > manually changed the drive characteristics, but it still insisted that > > it was a 270Mb drive. > > > > I formatted the initial cartridge to 130Mb for /mnt and 140Mb for a > > swap partition, and then do not mount the swap partition. This works > > but is not a solution. > > > > How can I format new cartridges to 130Mb. Do you have any ideas of > > newfs/format commands that I might try?? > > The format would be a SCSI format. Not on an IDE drive it wouldn't. It appears that the EZ135 is reporting bogus geometry information. I just spent $1500 on car repairs, or I would have bought one (a SCSI one though) some time back. I believe that both types incorrectly report their size. > Without this information, I can't really say *why* FreeBSD is > saying it's a 270M drive. I think it's a historic f*ckup in the EZ135 firmware that was carried over from the SQ3270. > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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