Re: DGUX pdisk_labels

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From: Bob Goudreau
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 00:00

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Dan Eldridge (dan@redcon.com) wrote:
: Hi, can anybody help me find the parameters needed for the pdisk_labels
: files, we're getting to the point that we don't even care what kind of
: drive it is, but we would prefer something around the 1GB size and half
: height, the computer we're trying to add this drive to is an Aviion 310
: and we do have room for the drive in the PHU, any help will be
: appreciated, please let me know if I've left out any vital information.

If you're talking about an AViiON 310 and Peripheral Housing Units,
then the disks in question must be SCSI disks.  This makes it easy,
since DG/UX will automatically install a generic dummy label on any
SCSI disk.  The SCSI protocol doesn't require that the OS know any
specific geometry information in advance; the OS can just query the
device about its capabilities.  Real labels containing real geometry
info are required only for the old ESDI and SMD types of disk.

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From: goudreau@dg-rtp.dg.com (Bob Goudreau)
Subject: Re: DGUX pdisk_labels
Date: 1996/03/29
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