From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 28 13:22:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA25132 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 13:22:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zappa.cs.uncc.edu (zappa.cs.uncc.edu [152.15.35.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA25125 for ; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 13:22:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by zappa.cs.uncc.edu (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA01512; Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:04:06 -0400 From: jlrobins@zappa.cs.uncc.edu (James Robinson) Message-Id: <9608282004.AA01512@zappa.cs.uncc.edu> Subject: Re: IOMEGA JAZ Drive. To: bose@nfx.com (Ronen Bose) Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 16:04:05 -0400 (EDT) Cc: scouchma@commerce.imagenet.on.ca, TOTO@ifqsc.sc.usp.br, gfoster@gfoster.com, bde@zeta.org.au, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960828195950.0091e7c0@nfx.com> from "Ronen Bose" at Aug 28, 96 12:59:50 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I used /stand/sysinstall to label my disks -- here's the geometry that it came up with: sofa# disklabel /dev/rsd3e # /dev/rsd3e: type: SCSI disk: sd3s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 1020 sectors/unit: 2090976 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] c: 2090976 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1020*) e: 2090976 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1020*) As you can see, I only wanted one partition on the disk. You can either use /stand/sysinstall (carefully!), or can come up with a /etc/disktab entry for the device and then use disklabel to label your cartridge. If you do write a disktab entry, could you please send it to me / us -- it would be good to have around :-). James