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Date:      	Sun, 20 Jul 1997 09:34:17 -0600 (MDT)
From:      kirk@ve6kik.ampr.ab.ca (Kirk Davis)
To:        cowan@cyberport.com (Cowan Bowman)
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Quantum Fireball ST 3.2 Gig SCSI
Message-ID:  <m0wpy01-000S0AC@ve6kik.ampr.ab.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970717191527.6874E-100000@hippo.cyberport.com> from Cowan Bowman at "Jul 17, 97 07:24:11 pm"

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> 
> I've been haveing trouble getting my Quantum Fireball ST 3.2 Gig SCSI
> drive formatted without it locking up the OS.  It usually locks up about
> 1/3rd through the newfs procedure.
> 
> I'm sure out of all the FreeBSD users, there has to be some users that
> have successfully formatted there drive.  Could some kind soul possibly
> send me a copy of there disklabel for their Quantum Fireball ST 3.2 drive?
> I have a feeling my drive geometry in the disklabel may be incorrect.
> I've tried using the defaults that my Symbios Controller thinks the
> geometry is and even used the setting from Quantums spec sheets, but the
> newfs command gets about 1/3rd through the cyliners before freezing up.
> 
> Thanks for any help, and if I can offer more information to help with my
> problem please ask and I'll come up with the details.

    I didn't have any problems with mine.  It seemed to plug and chug. Here is
the output from disklabel.


# /dev/rsd0c:
type: SCSI
disk: sd0s1
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 390
sectors/unit: 6281352
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0		# milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0	# milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  a:    65536        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0 	# (Cyl.    0 - 4*)
  b:   151568    65536      swap                    	# (Cyl.    4*- 13*)
  c:  6281352        0    unused        0     0       	# (Cyl.    0 - 390*)
  e:  1024000   217104    4.2BSD        0     0     0 	# (Cyl.   13*- 77*)
  f:  5040248  1241104    4.2BSD        0     0     0 	# (Cyl.   77*- 390*)

--- Kirk



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