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Re: Installing a Micropolis 1528 drive on Dec5000

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From: Shaheen R Tonse (510)-486-6349
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 19:11
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This is a followup to my earlier request for help installing a Micropolis 1528
SCSI drive on a DecStation 5000 running Ultrix 4.1. I think the problem
was that the disk partitions were too big. I finally reduced them to:
(extract from /etc/disktab)

rz58|RZ58| Micropolis 1.2GB Winchester:\
        :ty=winchester:ns#84:nt#15:nc#2100:\
        :pa#32768:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
        :pb#32768:bb#4096:fb#1024:\
        :pc#2621688:bc#8192:fc#1024:\
        :pd#0:bd#8192:fd#1024:\
        :pe#0:be#8192:fe#1024:\
        :pf#0:bf#8192:ff#1024:\
        :pg#1200000:bg#8192:fg#1024:\
        :ph#1200002:bh#8192:fh#1024:

down from about 1270000 for g & h, and the problem went away! In addition,  we
were never sure if the problem was a real one with the "newfs" & "mkfs" 
utilities, or whehter the problem was with "fsck" not knowing how to handle
such  large file systems (& we still don't know but at least it works now).
					Regards, S.Tonse.
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From: tonse@csa2.lbl.gov (Shaheen R Tonse (510)-486-6349)
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Subject: Re: Installing a Micropolis 1528 drive on Dec5000
Date: 30 Oct 1992 11:11 PST
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