home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU!frisby.CS.ORST.EDU!sechrest
- From: sechrest@frisby.CS.ORST.EDU (John Sechrest)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Getting more space on Sonata.
- Message-ID: <1k1a16INN2cu@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 18:03:18 GMT
- Article-I.D.: flop.1k1a16INN2cu
- References: <1993Jan20.043133.12991@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1jit6r$gb4@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Oregon State University
- Lines: 102
- NNTP-Posting-Host: frisby.cs.orst.edu
-
-
- In article <1jit6r$gb4@agate.berkeley.edu> izumi@pinoko.berkeley.edu writes:
- >In article <C14r6A.B9K@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes:
-
- >>Is sonata having problems because of disk space?
-
-
- Please Excuse me for jumping into this discussing late, but
- I have been working on getting things right on CS.ORST.EDU.
-
- We had been very short of space. We were loosing submissions
- because people just could not put things onto the disk.
-
-
- >Perhaps, NeXT and other companies are willing to donate for more disk
- >space? Particularly those companies that distribute demos via sonata
- >that, upon license key activation, become fully functional products.
- >
-
- With some very generous work by our Next Representative (thanks marti)
- we have been given a large 1.4G disk. That is the good news.
- We had it up a couple of weeks ago and things looked rosy,
- until people started saying that things were getting damaged.
- After looking at the disk, it looks like the disktab is/was a
- bit sick. This weekend, I rebuild the disktab and reformated
- the disk and it looks like we have a working Next area with
- lots of space:
-
- /dev/dsk/4s0 1007042 237355 668982 26% /usr/local/ftp/pub/next
-
- For the short term. this should hold us is good stead.
- In the long term, we probably will need more space.
-
- We are working on revamping how our computer systems are
- connected here, so the next archive is likely to move from
- CS.ORST.EDU to something like ftp.cs.orst.edu... More
- when we get it finalized.
-
- The FTP site at CS.ORST.EDU is managed by volunteers who
- find time between real work to handle the site. I hope that
- we have been providing a good service. Any help
- that you might want to give us would go a long way for
- us to keep this service running.
-
- If you have questions about the CS.ORST.EDU next area send
- mail to next-ftp@cs.orst.edu and it will get to those
- of us who are working on the ftp area.
-
- If you have problems with anything on the ftp area. Please
- let me know.
-
- Now for a request for some help....
-
- The disk that we got from next is a Seagate 41650N disk.
- A nice 1.4 G disk.
-
- We called seagate and got all the drive specs:
-
- the Segate 41650N is a scsi drive.
- 15ms seek time
- autoparking
- 2107 cylinders
- 15 heads
- 87 average sectors per track
-
-
- From this we created the disktab:
-
- seagate41650:\
- :No swap:ns#43:nt#15:nc#2107:\
- :s0#1359015:b0#8192:f0#1024:\
- :se#1024:rm#3600:
-
- This looked like it worked fine, but in fact there were blocks that
- it could not read. After some playing, I was able to find that
- somewhere after 1.05G, every 10368 blocks was not readable.
- Because we had been down for 3 days. I decided to just
- size the disk smaller than 1.05G.
-
- I would rather have the extra 400M back if I can get it.
-
- We are currently running with a disktab entry of:
-
- seagate41650:\
- :No swap:ns#33:nt#15:nc#2107:\
- :s0#1042965:b0#8192:f0#1024:\
- :se#1024:rm#3600:
-
- And it fscks fine.
-
-
- Does anyone know how I might fix this problem?
-
-
-
- -------
- John Sechrest . Internet: sechrest@cs.orst.edu
- Lab Coordinator . UUCP: hplabs!hp-pcd!orstcs!sechrest
- Computer Science Dept .
- Oregon State University .
- Corvallis,Oregon 97331 .
- (503) 737-3273 .
-