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Date:      Fri, 18 Aug 1995 17:42:24 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        kallio@jyu.fi (Seppo Kallio)
Cc:        julian@ref.tfs.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ** How to add second SCSI disk ? **
Message-ID:  <199508180812.RAA04143@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <v0153050bac59e13de94e@[130.234.41.39]> from "Seppo Kallio" at Aug 18, 95 10:19:41 am

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Seppo Kallio stands accused of saying:
> After fdisk and some partition definitions I am getting using
> 1. If I exit, disklabel is complaining about rpm and interleave. Can I
> change them to whatever I like (that is: are they actually used?)?

Not in any significant matter. Set them to something sensible (5000 and
1 would be fine)

> 2. Why 8 partitions? There is only 3 (I have 8 on sd0)

No idea; shouldn't matter.

> 3. If I change the order to
> 
> #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
>   a:   145856        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    9*- 80*)
>   b:    20000   145856      swap                        # (Cyl.    0 - 9*)
>   c:   165856        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 80*)
> 
> Mount does not accpet it, "/dev/sd1a on /mnt: Incorrect super block.". Why?

Because you haven't newfs'd the filesystem yet.

> Seppo

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