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- From: dansmith@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: DEC RZ55 /etc/format.dat entry (still) needed
- Message-ID: <18225@autodesk.COM>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 01:34:59 GMT
- References: <18146@autodesk.COM> <18216@autodesk.COM> <1992Dec22.152550.16666@spdcc.com>
- Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA
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- In <1992Dec22.152550.16666@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
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- > In article <18216@autodesk.COM> dansmith@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Smith) writes:
- > >> Anyone have this? The DEC /etc/disktab entry is:
- > >> rz55|RZ55|DEC RZ55 Winchester:\
- > Well, we were doing this just yesterday under Solaris 2.1, and used the
- > Ultrix disktab entry (most everything else is the "default"), only to find
- > that the format program couldn't label the drive. So I suggested just
- > calling the drive a "SUN0327", and it formatted and labelled like a charm.
-
- I ended up using:
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- Current Disk = sd1: <CDC Wren IV 94171-344 cyl 1545 alt 2 hd 9 sec 46>
-
- I still don't know what type of drive it really is :-) This
- would still be useful information.
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- /dev/sd1c 299621 9 269650 0% /usr/local
-
- Anyways, it's happy now (noisy, but happy). Thanks to those who wrote!
-
- Daniel
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- Daniel Smith, Autodesk, Sausalito, California, (415) 332-2344 x 2580
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