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- From: trn@warper.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo)
- Subject: Re: Third party disk drives on HP-UX
- Message-ID: <trn.715435022@warper.jhuapl.edu>
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- Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
- References: <1992Aug29.191511.29259@riacs.edu> <7371283@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 11:57:02 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- kinsell@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Dave Kinsell) writes:
-
- |In comp.sys.hp, trn@warper.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo) writes:
-
- |> > (2) What problems did you encounter?
- |>
- |> I lost roughly 7% of the usable space on my disk due to the assumption by
- |> HP that all drives will have 1024-byte sectors. They provide a workaround
- |> solution for those who have 512-byte sectors so that you may still use the
- |> drive. However, a disk with an odd number of 512-byte tracks will lose one
- |> track under the workaround.
- |>
- |
- |You specify disk geometry in terms of 1024 byte units, but that causes no loss
- |of capacity for the drive. I suspect your 7% loss came from file system
- |overhead, primarily inodes, which can be adjusted if desired.
-
- My apologies. Looking at the number of free inodes per disk, I see that the
- disk on the Sun must have been configured with roughly one inode per 4096 bytes,
- vs. the default of one per 2048.
-
- |You also need
- |to realize that disk vendors specify decimal megabytes, whereas utilities
- |like bdf use units of 1024 in reporting capacities.
-
- Using Berekley-df (bdf), the kbyte capacity of the drive in question (on a
- Sun) is 1314173. The same model drive on the HP, using bdf, reports a kbyte
- capacity of 1221949. That's where my 7% figure came from. In hindsight, if
- the missing track was the sole culprit, I should have expected a difference
- of ~5.9%. 1/17 sounded close enough to 7% that I assumed the problem lay in
- the loss of one track's data.
-
- Oh, well, another shot in the ol' foot... :-)
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