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From: delgado@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Jose Delgado)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Help: Hard disk for MIPS RS3230
Message-ID: <4183@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
Date: 13 Oct 90 20:33:17 GMT
Reply-To: delgado@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Jose Delgado)
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Organization: SUNY Binghamton, NY
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HELP !!!

I'm trying to install a hard disk to a MIPS RS3230.
This machine has already 2 internal disk drives. 

The new disk is already formated and has a capacity of 326MB.

It's a bit confusing the way the MIPS manuals explain how to do it.

First of all the disk that I got is not one of the ones that are in 
the file /etc/disktab.  What should I do in this case? should I add it 
to this file?

The disk is being connected to the SCSI port; but what is the file that
drives this port?  In the manual says that I should use prtvtoc in
order to find the device features but I couldn't find what I want ( Ican
read the two internal disk features)

at this point I cannot use newfs.ffs because I don't know the device
file.  I try to see all the possible files in /dev/dsk and /dev/scsi
but no success.

If somebody has some experience in this matter, please let me
know what I should do.

Thanks,

Jose Delgado

delgado@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu