[comp.unix.ultrix] Seagate ST41650N on DEC5000/Ultrix 4.0

spa@fct.unl.pt (Salvador Pinto Abreu) (05/25/91)

I'm about to receive a Seagate ST41650N 1.4Gb SCSI disk, which I
intend to install on a DECstation 5000/200, running Ultrix 4.0.

There was some talk not long ago about SCSI disks larger than 1G and
Ultrix (I hear it was fixed in Ultrix 4.2, but I can't wait until
that), but I didn't save the articles :-(

The question is: what must be done in order for this to work? Does
anyone already have a disktab entry for this drive?  I won't be using
the `c' partition, I'll just stick to less-than-1G filesystems.

Is there anything I should beware of?
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-- Salvador Pinto Abreu		spa@fct.unl.pt
				Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PORTUGAL

spa@fct.unl.pt (Salvador Pinto Abreu) (05/28/91)

on 28 May 91 03:41:22 GMT,
treese@crl.dec.com (Win Treese) said:

> From what I understand, this is a known bug in the current ULTRIX BIND.
>
> For an unsupported, at-your-own-risk new version, you can ftp from
>
> 	{crl,gatekeeper}.dec.com:/pub/DEC/cra-bind.tar.Z
>
> This is BIND 4.8.3 for RISC/ULTRIX.

Right answer to the wrong question, I'm already running cra-bind
(quite happy with it) :-)

The thing is, is there any way to format the ST41650N with 1K blocks
and have Ultrix 4.0 know about this, so that I can overcome the 1Gb
limit (before Ultrix 4.2 gets here, which may never happen as we don't
have SW maintenance)?
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-- Salvador Pinto Abreu		spa@fct.unl.pt
				Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PORTUGAL