1 Nov
2000
1 Nov
'00
2:03 p.m.
Thanks for the information
I found another solution as well. The old DSNlink database gave me the
total number of sectors on the RF73 and identified a RZ73 disk with the
same characteristics. On an old alpha at work was a disktab entry for a
RZ73. I was able to munge the RZ73 information into a RF73 disktab.
I was only interested in the C partition so the others may or may not be
valid:
rf73|RF73|DEC RF73 Winchester:\
:ty=winchester:ns#71:nt#21:nc#2621:\
:pa#131072:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
:pb#262144:bb#4096:fb#1024:\
:pc#3907911:bc#8192:fc#1024:\
:pd#15884:bd#8192:fd#1024:\
:pe#307200:be#8192:fe#1024:\
:pf#542575:bf#8192:ff#1024:\
:pg#291346:bg#8192:fg#1024:
And here it is mounted on /scratch
Filesystem Total kbytes kbytes %
node kbytes used free used Mounted on
/dev/ra2a 15823 11632 2609 82% /
/dev/ra2g 445823 257260 143981 64% /usr
/dev/ra1c 368126 88626 242688 27% /usr/users
/dev/ra0c 1909325 232433 1485960 14% /scratch
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Clint Wolff (VAX collector) wrote:
Hi Paul,
Most of the information in /etc/disktab is useless nowdays. The
number of cylinders, heads, etc can safely be left out without
any problems.
What you do need is to decide on a partition table for the drive.
I usually choose the largest drive listed, copy it to my new drive,
and tweak the partitions covering the end of the drive to cover
the additional cylinders of my new drive. IE partitions a,b are the
same, c and h? are enlarged.
snip
clint
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Paul Thompson wrote:
> Greetings
>
> I have an elderly version of ultrix (4.2A) which knows nothing of disks of
> mind boggling capacity such as the two gigabyte RF73.
snip