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From: rer@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Rob Robason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: SCSI discs on HP-UX
Message-ID: <5570373@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 90 06:18:12 GMT
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Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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> I need to know how to make a non-HP SCSI drive (Imprimis Wren 7) work
> with an HP 370 workstation running HP-UX 6.5, soon to be 7.0.  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.
> Please send or post help.  Thanks.                Jeff Wille
> ----------

You need to run mkfs(1M) to create a file system.  Mediainit(1M) only
initializes the media, and does not create a file system on it.  df and
bdf look at the file system structures to figure out free space.

Rob Robason