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From: doelz@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: PROM and fx questions
Message-ID: <1990Nov12.200452.1169@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 12 Nov 90 19:04:52 GMT
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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Hi, 
my system disk recently crashed because of bad blocks which were 
not correctly mapped :-( . As I tried to read some technical information 
about PROM and how to use it, I recognized that my most recent 
documentation in the IRIS Owner's guide dates back to 1988. Either 
I overlooked something, or the new guide does no longer have such 
information, nor is it stored elsewhere. Is that correct? 

Regarding the quota which have been asked for recently, I finally 
partitioned my disks in non-standard fashion which makes it possible 
to keep groups of users in own partitions. While this approach is 
powerful, I recognized that the miniroot cannot mkfs any partition 
other than 0,1,and 6 on the ESDI controller. (Though I made sure 
that the b and c devices are there), The error message is 'cannot determine 
size of fs ... . Is that a feature or a bug? Do others use non-standard 
partitions ? Is this a dead-end road which won't be supported in the future?

Regards
Reinhard