Dear managers,
I have two 2Go Sun disk (previously used under SunOS4) attached to my
AS1000A running 3.2F. They are correctly recognized at boot in the console as
SEAGATE SCSI disks. I created the devices with MAKEDEV and it seems ok :
root_at_silk:/# file /dev/rrz[0-2]a
/dev/rrz0a: character special (8/0) SCSI #0 RZ28D disk #0 (SCSI ID #0)
/dev/rrz1a: character special (8/1024) SCSI #0 RZxx disk #8 (SCSI ID #1)
/dev/rrz2a: character special (8/2048) SCSI #0 RZxx disk #16 (SCSI ID #2)
First question: what does the #8 and #16 mean?
root_at_silk:/# disklabel -r rz1
Disk is unlabeled or, /dev/rrz1a does not start at block 0 of the disk
The idea behind this is that this disk contains valid data on one partition
that I would like to keep there while using the remaining (currently free)
space as a UFS partition on the AlphaServer. I don't need to read the data
on the SunOS partition, I just want to use the remaining space without
loosing the data. The second disk is completely free.
Second question: I know the idea is weird but is it possible? if so, what am
I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance for any advice / information.
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Received on Fri Sep 06 1996 - 14:17:08 NZST