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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 4.3BSD partition sizes for RA82 ?
Message-ID: <8857@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 1-Oct-87 00:39:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  1 00:39:38 1987
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In article <3435@diku.UUCP> thorinn@diku.UUCP (Lars Henrik Mathiesen) writes:
> When I came in this morning the door was almost blocked by a huge cabinet
>saying "SA482" in tasteful letters - and now it seems that I'm expected to
>make a 4.3BSD system do something reasonable with it. It seems to contain
>four drives of a type that may later be sold separately as RA82 ....
>Hopefully I'll be able to get a sector count from DEC, but it would be
>nice to start out with a somewhat standard partition set -- I want to be
>able to boot the 4.4BSD tape without all the fuss :-)

1) No problem: use my driver; it prints out the size of each disk in
   sectors.  Or use adb to print ra_info[unit].radsize:
	ra_info+(0t16*(unit))+4/D

2) We never use Berkeley's standard partitions anyway.

3) No problem.  4.4 (or 9BSD or whatever) will (i.e., does now) have
   disk labels.  (Well, there *are* a *few* little problems still,
   like the lack of a standalone labelling program....)
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7690)
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