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- From: rwhelan@elephant.axion.bt.co.uk (Richard Whelan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Help with 1.3G disk
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.091727.19482@axion.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 09:17:27 GMT
- Sender: news@axion.bt.co.uk
- Reply-To: rwhelan@axion.bt.co.uk
- Organization: British Telecom Labs
- Lines: 88
- Organisation: BT Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, IPSWICH UK
-
- Hi,
-
- I have a problem. I'm trying to add an HP57960, and HP disk, but not
- supported as an HP product, which is 1.3GB (formatted), well supposed to be.
- The disk is due to go onto to a HP9000/425 running 7.05, which has already
- got two internal 600Mb disks and one external 300 Mb Maxtor disk, used for
- swap. I eventually managed to get a disktab entry for the disk, directly sent
- from HP. Below is a copy of the checklist file I was trying to use.
-
- /dev/dsk/0s0 / hfs defaults 0 1
- /dev/dsk/1s0 /home/vulture hfs defaults 0 2
- /dev/dsk/1s0 / swap defaults 1 0
- /dev/dsk/4s0 / swap default 0 0 (Maxtor disk)
- /dev/dsk/2s0 /spare hfs rw,suid 0 2 (New disk)
-
- I was originally trying to get the new disk to talk on 4s0 as the swap disk
- was already on 2s0. For some weird reason the new disk kept on being seen as
- 2s0 and so we had a 1.3 Gb swap disk, useful for swap but useless to me. In
- the end we recobfigured the kernel to use 4s0 as the swap disk and mount the
- new one on 2s0.
-
- Ok. So now we have a useable 1.3 Gb disk, or so I thought. I managed to
- newfs the disk and it gave me approx the right size. Then we started
- having problems. We decided to make the new disk a project disk, so we tried
- to copy a 100Mb + directory in /home/vulture, using cpio onto the new disk.
- At first it went fine, then the following errors started to appear
-
- Cannot create directory for
- </spare/maint/docman/newgen/source/lib/resrce_err.o> (errno:6)
- Cannot create directory for </spare/maint/docman/newgen/source/lib/salloc.c>
- (er
- rno:6)
- Cannot create directory for </spare/maint/docman/newgen/source/lib/salloc.o>
- (errno:6)
- Cannot create directory for </spare/maint/docman/newgen/source/lib/set_ext.c>
- (errno:6)
-
- etc. (masses of them).
-
- a df of the device showed
-
- Filesystem kbytes used avail capacity Mounted on
- /dev/dsk/2s0 1277886 6744 1143353 1% /spare
-
- and trying to create further directories resulted in the following:
-
- # mkdir JUNK
- mkdir: cannot make directory JUNK: No such device or address
-
- Thinking there might have been a formatting problem I mediainited the disk
- and re-newfsd it. Then it tried the copy again, and it crashed out in
- exactly the same place.
-
- Thoroughly confused I called in the suppliers who sent and engineer with a
- new disk, and we tries again. With the new disk I got exactly the same
- error. We then tried a different method of copying. I tarred a file onto that
- disk until we had used about 20 Megs. Hooray we had got past the 6.7 Mb
- mark. However when I then tried to untar the file within the disk, it
- crashed out again, with the same error. Probably about 6.7 Mb beyond the
- starting point. I then tried to fsck the disk. If I use the raw device, ie
- /dev/rdsk/2s0 it goes through no problems. If I use the other device,
- /dev/dsk/2s0 it dies instantly saying it can't read a particular block,
- which happens to match the last magic block number from a newfs. This to me
- sounds as though the disktab could be slightly wrong, but I don't know.
-
- My questions are:
-
- Has anyone had this problem or even better succeeded in getting an HP97560
- disk onto an HP9000/425 running 7.05.
-
- Also does anyone have another copy of the disktab entry, as the one I have
- may of course not be quite correct.
-
- And lastly HELP !!
-
- Please can you mail me directly, with any help you may have.
-
-
- Richard Whelan
-
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