cattani@columbia.UUCP (Bob Cattani) (12/09/86)
4.3 Unix Has anybody had problems newfs'ing the RA80 partitions at the end of the disk (e and h)? uda(4) and /sys/vaxuba/uda.c both indicate the size of the disk (c partition) is 242,606 blocks. The RA80 User Guide says the disk has 236,964 blocks. Judging from the hard errors I'm getting, I'd say the driver and /etc/disktab are wrong. Do I hear a witness? -Bob Cattani, Columbia Univ. CS Dept. (cattani@columbia.edu, ...!seismo!columbia!cattani)
evs@duke.UUCP (12/10/86)
In article <4081@columbia.UUCP> cattani@columbia.UUCP (Bob Cattani) writes: > >uda(4) and /sys/vaxuba/uda.c both indicate the size of the disk (c >partition) is 242,606 blocks. The RA80 User Guide says the disk has >236,964 blocks. Judging from the hard errors I'm getting, I'd say the >driver and /etc/disktab are wrong. We use 237212 sectors for the c partition on our RA80 and we have had no problems reading the end of the disk. I got this number by reading the end of the c partition using dd and examining the diagnostic output. I think the c partition is supposed to include the bad sector forwarding info and maybe the RA80 manual doesn't inlcude this when it lists the disk size. -- {decvax, seismo}!mcnc!duke!evs Ed Simpson, P.O.Box 3140, Duke Univ. Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710