How big is an rz29b?

From: Kai Lanz <kai_at_pangea.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 15:13:23 -0700

Has DEC changed the geometry of their rz29b 4.3G drives?

I just installed three brand-new DEC rz29b drives in our AlphaServer 1000
(DUnix 3.0b). I did the MAKEDEV for each, then wrote default labels via

disklabel -rw rz1 rz29b

Disklabel reports that the c partition extends 27120 sectors past the end
of the device. /etc/disktab specifies the full disk size as 8407200; what
we get is a truncated partition of 8380080 sectors. Adding the -t ufs
and -n options to disklabel makes no difference.

Is disktab out of date or maybe just wrong for these disks?
Received on Fri Jul 05 1996 - 01:28:14 NZST

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