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From: rjn@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bob Niland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Hanging non-HP SCSI drives on an HP 9000/370
Message-ID: <7370195@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Aug 90 16:59:33 GMT
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re: > We have a spare 300 Mbyte SCSI disk made by Emulex ...

> Moreover, diskinfo gives the following report:
>                size: 589826 bytes
>                      ^^^^^^
>    bytes per sector: 1
>                      ^^ say what?
> 
> whereas the disktab entry I've created says:
> 
>         :s0#624750:b0#8192:f0#1024:\
>             ^^^^^^

You have declared the disk to be bigger than it is.  newfs always starts
with a reality-check, trying to seek to the last sector.  It's not there.

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