I asked:
>I'm looking to turn the following information from Seagate into a disktab
>entry for Digital Unix V3.2. If anyone's done this before, I'd appreciate the
>assistance. Thanks.
The summary: don't bother. Use disklabel(8) as usual, which queries the disk
to get all the info it needs.
The best answer, from "Kevin Oberman" <oberman_at_nersc.gov>:
>While the information is all there to build a disktab entry, it's
>really better to have Digital UNIX ask the drive for it's
>configuration and label the disk accordingly. This is done with
>disklabel(8) and allows proper use of SCSI disks which can't be
>properly defined in the disktab because the number of sectors/track is
>not constant. It also avoids the nasty problems with typos and the
>like.
>
>Also you should realize that a SCSI drive does it's own optimization,
>so things like head-switch times and most any other issues except
>total number of sectors and partition sizes (which you set up with
>disklabel) are not relevant.
Thanks also to:
Eric R Showalter <eshowalt_at_mercury.jlfrench.com>
Samantha Miller <sjmiller_at_grlcl1.dnet.bp.com>
Patrick O'Brien <pobrien_at_cfa.harvard.edu>
David Gadbois <gadbois_at_cyc.com>
-Jeff E. Nelson / Apertus Technologies Corporation / System Management Group
-Internet: jeff.nelson_at_apertus.com
Received on Fri Jan 12 1996 - 18:27:21 NZDT