hearn@randvax.UUCP (Tony Hearn) (08/18/90)
We have a spare 300 Mbyte SCSI disk made by Emulex which noone else is using, so I am trying to hang it on a 98265A SCSI disc interface on a 9000/370. I'm pretty sure I have the device files correctly set up, and indeed mediainit (with no optional arguments) completes without obvious errors. However, newfs complains quickly that there's no space left on the device. Moreover, diskinfo gives the following report: /dev/rdsk/0s0 vendor: EMULEX product id: MD21/S2 ESDI type: direct access device size: 589826 bytes bytes per sector: 1 whereas the disktab entry I've created says: EMULEX_noswap|EMULEX:\ :no swap:ns#34:nt#15:nc#1225:\ :s0#624750:b0#8192:f0#1024:\ :se#512:rm#3600: Can anyone help me with this? Thanks, Tony Hearn (hearn@rand.org)
rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland) (08/19/90)
re: > We have a spare 300 Mbyte SCSI disk made by Emulex ... > Moreover, diskinfo gives the following report: > size: 589826 bytes > ^^^^^^ > bytes per sector: 1 > ^^ say what? > > whereas the disktab entry I've created says: > > :s0#624750:b0#8192:f0#1024:\ > ^^^^^^ You have declared the disk to be bigger than it is. newfs always starts with a reality-check, trying to seek to the last sector. It's not there. Regards, Hewlett-Packard Bob Niland Internet: rjn@hpfcrjn.FC.HP.COM 3404 East Harmony Road UUCP: [hplabs|hpfcse]!hpfcrjn!rjn Ft Collins CO 80525-9599
milburn@me10.lbl.gov (John Milburn) (08/22/90)
In article <2654@randvax.UUCP> hearn@randvax.UUCP (Tony Hearn) writes: >EMULEX_noswap|EMULEX:\ > :no swap:ns#34:nt#15:nc#1225:\ > :s0#624750:b0#8192:f0#1024:\ > :se#512:rm#3600: > >Can anyone help me with this? I think the problem here is that you have defined the number of sectors per track using 512 byte sectors, rather that the 1k bytes required. Try using ns=17 and s0=312,375. If the other information is correct, this should work. -jem -- JEMilburn@lbl.gov ...!ucbvax!lbl.gov!JEMilburn