Thanks for the responses, I was right, it was a simple question. Basically
you do nothing special, but you have to trust that the system can get the
drive geometry off of the drive itself. Responses follow.
Pat
from alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com:
>
>
> For disklabel or newfs just tell it what it is. For well
> behaved SCSI disks Digital UNIX can get the geometry and
> default partition table from the drive.
>
> # disklabel -wr /dev/rrz#c ST410800N
>
> It doesn't matter that there isn't a disktab entry for it.
from Martyn Johnson <Martyn.Johnson_at_cl.cam.ac.uk>
>
>Nothing. The system gets everything it needs from the device itself. I'm
>using 4 of these drives and they work just fine with no special configuration
>at all.
>
>When you label it, give the device type as "RZxx" (generic SCSI disc).
>
>Martyn Johnson maj_at_cl.cam.ac.uk
>University of Cambridge Computer Lab
>Cambridge UK
from diarra_at_ipnsun5.in2p3.fr (Christophe Diarra)
>just do:
>
># cd /dev
># ./MAKEDEV rzX (X is the SCSI target number)
># disklabel -wr rzX rzX
>
>I have used this and it worked for me.
>
>Hope this help.
>
>Christophe.
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Received on Wed Aug 30 1995 - 22:15:47 NZST