Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!ef1c+ From: ef1c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Esther Filderman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: /etc/disktab entry seems weird Message-ID: Date: 22 Dec 90 06:04:47 GMT Organization: Computing Systems, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 26 This reminds me of the possible problem that I am seeing on our rz57s which live on a Decstation 5000/200. The disktab entry says that the size of pc should be 2025788, but chpt -q says something totally different. [I don't have the exact number here, but it's something like 195xxxx.] When I called for software support I was first told that it was the way that the operating system was installed [ultrix 3.1d had been copied from a Decstation 3100] and that this confused the machine, and that I should reload software. So instead we installed Ultrix 4.1 from tk50 and voila, chpt and the disktab still don't match. Am I incorrect in thinking that they should? They do for every other drive on every other system I have, including Vaxstation 3100 with rz23, Decstation 3100 with rz24, vax 3200 with ra82, vax 6410 with ra90, from Ultrix 3.0 [vax] to Ultrix 4.1 [vax and risc]. Could there be incorrect disktabs out there? Has anyone else seen similar things with rz57s? Thanks, Esther ----------------- Esther C. Filderman ef1c+@andrew.cmu.edu System Manager Computing Services Mercury Project Carnegie Mellon University They are gardeners and carpenters. They are not tomato men.