From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 24 01:34:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA28773 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 01:34:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA28767 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 01:34:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ritig1.rit.reuters.com (ritig1.rit.reuters.com [199.171.195.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id BAA22353 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 01:34:39 -0700 Received: from ritig4.rit.reuters.com by ritig1.rit.reuters.com; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/14Sep94-0947PM) id AA29221; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:36:07 -0400 Received: from mr.rit.reuters.com by RITIG4.RIT.REUTERS.COM (PMDF V4.3-10 #7805) id <01I3WNVPMON4002JQH@RITIG4.RIT.REUTERS.COM>; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 04:33:20 -0500 (EST) Received: with PMDF-MR; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:31:55 EST Mr-Received: by mta REOA.MUAS; Relayed; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:31:55 -0500 Mr-Received: by mta REOA1; Relayed; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:31:54 -0500 Mr-Received: by mta RITIG4; Relayed; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:33:15 -0500 Disclose-Recipients: prohibited Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:31:55 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Smith Subject: Re: FWD: FreeBSD 2.1 and Syquest EZ135 In-Reply-To: <199604232039.NAA20338@phaeton.artisoft.com> To: terry@lambert.org, "andy.smith" Cc: questions Message-Id: <5055310924041996/A04177/REOA1/11A4C25F3600*@MHS> Autoforwarded: false Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Importance: normal Priority: normal Sensitivity: Company-Confidential Ua-Content-Id: 11A4C25F3600 X400-Mts-Identifier: [;5055310924041996/A04177/REOA1] Hop-Count: 2 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Terry, The drive is IDE, not SCSI. What I was after was a way of telling newfs and disklabel that the drive is a 135Mb device to override the system settings. Any ideas would be muchly appreciated. Thanks Andy > >The format would be a SCSI format. > >You haven't given me enough information to tell if the problem is >that the SCSI driver is assuming based on drive type, the drive >is reporting the incorrect type based on its model number, or >the formatted disk has a particular media tag, etc., etc.. > >Without this information, I can't really say *why* FreeBSD is >saying it's a 270M drive. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org >--- >Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present >or previous employers.