27 Jul
2012
27 Jul
'12
2:37 p.m.
On 07/27/2012 05:24 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
That's a good idea! I guess whichever is more convenient; if you have
a running 2.11BSD system already, or a bootable tape if not.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
What I do in
this case is boot something else on the system, from a
different drive if necessary, and (via an MSCP driver) get the number of
blocks for that specific drive. Here, I usually do this by readdressing
the controller and sticking it into a PDP-11 running 2.11BSD, as its
kernel device probe messages will give you the unit sizes as the drives
are brought online.
Or boot the the 2.11BSD install tape and run the disklabel program from the
install tape. That displays the full geometry of the disks as reported by
the MSCP controller. I've found that to be useful.