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- From: niko@iastate.edu (Nikolaus E Schuessler)
- Subject: * Disklabels - help please
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:29:37 GMT
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- Howdy. I'm trying to write a disk label onto a floppy (from
- a non-unix os), which I could do if I knew what to write...
-
- Here is a description of the drive (for 400k ug):
-
- Tracks Sectors/Trk
- 0-15 12
- 16-31 11
- 32-47 10
- 48-63 9
- 64-79 8
-
- I guess the drive rpm is variable as well...
-
- so, what should the disktab have in it? Should I make descriptive
- disknames like 'floppy800' and 'floppy1440' and just know from the
- type that this is the scheme?
-
- I could do something like:
-
- ns=10
- nt=1
- nc=80
- se=512
-
- so that calculations for total disk space would come out correctly...
- (a disk doesn't really have cylinders... right?)
-
- Also, what partitons should a floppy have? just an `a' or `c' partition
- (making the others 0 length)?
-
- since sector size is 512 bytes and the disk is tiny,
- block size = 1k and fragment size=512bytes? Or does one still want them to
- be 8k and 1k (respectively) like the defaults seem to be?
-
- --
- Niko Schuessler
- Project Vincent Systems Manager email: niko@iastate.edu
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