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From: burdick@hpindda.HP.COM (Matt Burdick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: SCSI discs on HP-UX
Message-ID: <4310094@hpindda.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Feb 90 16:50:13 GMT
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> When I run MEDIAINIT on it, it appears to format, but df and bdf show it
> as having negative free blocks and when I try to create a file system on
> it, it says something like that it can't write to disk because it's full.

When you say 'when I try to create a file system', does this mean you've
run newfs?  For example:

	/etc/newfs -L -v /dev/rdsk/3s0 hp7937

This will set up the file system on disk 3s0, including the bootstrap code
in the initial 8192 bytes of the device.  The newfs will by default set up
the disk with the same directory format as the root partition, so if the
root partition has long file names enabled the new disk will as well.  The
-L flag specifically chooses this option.  The hp7937 entry is in
/etc/disktab.

I'm not sure if your disk is in the default /etc/disktab - you may have to
create your own (good luck).  On the other hand, there does appear to be a
SCSI Wren disk in mine...

							-matt
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