thorinn@diku.UUCP (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) (09/28/87)
When I came in this morning the door was almost blocked by a huge cabinet saying "SA482" in tasteful letters - and now it seems that I'm expected to make a 4.3BSD system do something reasonable with it. It seems to contain four drives of a type that may later be sold separately as RA82, for a total of 2.5 Gigabytes. I hope that we can get Field Service to install them as four separate drives on two UDA50's, so I only have to invent a partition table for it. Hopefully I'll be able to get a sector count from DEC, but it would be nice to start out with a somewhat standard partition set -- I want to be able to boot the 4.4BSD tape without all the fuss :-) -- Lars Mathiesen, DIKU, U of Copenhagen, Denmark ..mcvax!diku!thorinn Institute of Datalogy -- we're scientists, not engineers.
chris@mimsy.UUCP (10/01/87)
In article <3435@diku.UUCP> thorinn@diku.UUCP (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) writes: > When I came in this morning the door was almost blocked by a huge cabinet >saying "SA482" in tasteful letters - and now it seems that I'm expected to >make a 4.3BSD system do something reasonable with it. It seems to contain >four drives of a type that may later be sold separately as RA82 .... >Hopefully I'll be able to get a sector count from DEC, but it would be >nice to start out with a somewhat standard partition set -- I want to be >able to boot the 4.4BSD tape without all the fuss :-) 1) No problem: use my driver; it prints out the size of each disk in sectors. Or use adb to print ra_info[unit].radsize: ra_info+(0t16*(unit))+4/D 2) We never use Berkeley's standard partitions anyway. 3) No problem. 4.4 (or 9BSD or whatever) will (i.e., does now) have disk labels. (Well, there *are* a *few* little problems still, like the lack of a standalone labelling program....) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris