10 Mar
2004
10 Mar
'04
3:13 a.m.
Hi again guys :)
I've got myself a storageworks shelf (with floor-stand hardware and the
smoked doors :D ) that has 3 SBBs and a HSD05 DSSI<->SCSI unit. It's
hooked up to my 4000/200 with a KFQSA MSCP DSSI card, and i've set it up
so that I can SET HOST/DUP/UQSSP/DISK 0 into the HSD05 and run all the
setup utils and toys there.
However, I don't know how to partition these disks under NetBSD - i've had
a bit of a fiddle with disklabel but quite frankly I get a bit lost, and
most of the time disklabel locks up on me anyway - I suspect this is
because it cannot know the true geometry of the disk it is talking to, but
that's just a supposition...
The three disks I have appear to the VAX firmware as DIS610, DUA620 and
DUA630 - all appearing as RF72 disks, and the VAX is netbooting NetBSD
1.5.2.
Can anyone explain to me how I can get these babies formatted so I can
eventually install NetBSD on them?
TIA
alex/melt
11 Mar
11 Mar
4:11 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, meltie wrote:
However, I don't know how to partition these disks
under NetBSD - i've had
a bit of a fiddle with disklabel but quite frankly I get a bit lost, and
most of the time disklabel locks up on me anyway - I suspect this is
because it cannot know the true geometry of the disk it is talking to, but
that's just a supposition...
What kind of disks are they in the HSD? There are disklabels around for a
variety of older DEC drives which can be applied to netbsd or you can
manufacture one yourself with the total block size and a couple of other
factors.
You can often disklabel a smaller label onto a larger disk. You will have
some unusable space but it will get the disk labelled.
What OS do you have doing the disklabel?
11:19 p.m.
On Friday 12 March 2004 03:11, Paul Thompson wrote:
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, meltie wrote:
They're RZ28s, although the HSD's reporting them all as RF72 disks. Which
one should I be trying to label them as?
However, I don't know how to partition these
disks under NetBSD - i've
had a bit of a fiddle with disklabel but quite frankly I get a bit
lost, and most of the time disklabel locks up on me anyway - I suspect
this is because it cannot know the true geometry of the disk it is
talking to, but that's just a supposition...
What kind of disks are they in the HSD? There are disklabels around for
a variety of older DEC drives which can be applied to netbsd or you can
manufacture one yourself with the total block size and a couple of other
factors. You can often disklabel a smaller label onto a larger
disk. You will
have some unusable space but it will get the disk labelled.
What OS do you have doing the disklabel?
NetBSD 1.5.2 :)
alex/melt
12 Mar
12 Mar
1:52 a.m.
On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 10:19:49AM +0000, meltie wrote:
They're RZ28s, although the HSD's reporting
them all as RF72 disks. Which
one should I be trying to label them as?
[...]
NetBSD 1.5.2 :)
Can you dd(1) from / to the raw
disk "c" partition?
Maybe there is some write protect magic activated in the HSD...
BTW: We have a shining new NetBSD 1.6.2 release... ;-)
--
tsch??,
Jochen
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