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- From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
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- Subject: Re: Need disktab for 1.2GB Toshiba MK-538FB
- Message-ID: <2AFB3645.5938@news.service.uci.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 03:21:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.152430.27396@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1992Nov6.205520.11208@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Nov6.205520.11208@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.) writes:
- >If you don't have the drive documentation, you can write a fairly
- >simple program that uses the DEVGETGEOM I/O control (devio(4)) to
- >ask the drive what it's geometry is and then construct a disktab
- >from that. Or you can use the creatediskbyname(3) library function
- >to get all the information you need for the disktab entry and
- >format it into an entry.
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- Or you can use 'rzdisk -g current' and find the geometry in the output. Much
- easier than writing programs to do it.
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