johnj@osiris.UUCP (John Johnston johnj@welch.jhu.edu) (06/17/89)
I'm having an odd problem trying to format some of the partitions on my (SCSI) WrenIII drive. I have mountlist entries made as per manual, hddisk.device and hddisk.info and such in expansion (done by the HDinstall program) but when I try to format my 3rd FFS partition it pukes something like: format dh2: (works) mount bin: format drive bin: name Bin (works) mount usr: format drive usr: name Usr (works) mount tmp: format drive tmp: name Tmp -format failed cannot find handler Any ideas ? I have copied this stuff right out of the manual. I tried running this booted off a floppy, too. I had binddrivers, and all that the system-startup.hd run. It's odd - I tried rebooting and formatting tmp: without mounting the other partitons - same thing. Nothing in the manual about this, of course. Boy, I have to admit - for such a nice machine, the documentation is pretty crappy. It's really a crying shame. --mjr();
jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) (07/01/89)
In article <2911@osiris.UUCP> mjr@welch.jhu.edu writes: > I'm having an odd problem trying to format some of the partitions >on my (SCSI) WrenIII drive. I have mountlist entries made as per manual, >hddisk.device and hddisk.info and such in expansion (done by the HDinstall >program) but when I try to format my 3rd FFS partition it pukes something >like: The most common reason for this is saying there are more blocks on the drive than actually exist. For example, if there are 4 heads, 17 blocks/track, and 612 cylinders, but 1 block/cylinder is spared out for bad block mapping (not unusual on a SCSI drive), then you have (I think) the equivalent of 602 usable cylinders (or 612 cylinders of 1 Head, (4*17)-1 blocks/track). It's ok to lie (within limits) to a SCSI drive. Note that you should not tell an A2090 that you have more than 127 blocks/track, it gets confused. -- Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering. Keeper of AmigaDos. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"