snoopy@ecrcvax.UUCP (Sebastian Schmitz) (02/24/86)
Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: snoopy@ecrcvax.UUCP (Sebastian Schmitz) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: European Computer-Industry Research Centre, Munchen, W. Germany Keywords: Apologies: I really wanted to include some of Chris Torek's reply here, but our news software is broken a trifle. In his reply to my note he writes (not verbatim):- "Assuming one block per track reserved for the forwarding is unwise: actually the number of blocks reserved can be found in a device status packet." This is true. However it did say one block in the controller manual and I presume that the controller is the one who generates this packet. I further assume that the controller will not generate a value in the packet that does not correspond to its DIP switch settings. So I left things at "factory preset defaults". In the light of this information, one has to take a look at the controller or its status packet to correctly partition the drives. Sigh. Life does tend to require a few MB of recursion stack... Love, Seb PS I do not know if one block is the generic default for the QD32 Emulex controllers. Is it ? -- There are three types of people: - those who make things happen - those who watch things happening - and those who wonder what happened ...\!mcvax\!unido\!ecrcvax\!snoopy /* N.B. valid csh address */