Re: RZ26L drive geometry

Mr. James W. Laferriere Network Engineer (babydr@nwrain.net)
Sat, 14 Feb 1998 21:55:09 -0800 (PST)


Hello John Zach,

RZ26 - from my disk on a SUN

1. c0t3d0 <DEC-RZ26-Solaris cyl 2568 alt 2 hd 14 sec 57> ROOTRZ26
/iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/espdma@4,8400000/esp@4,8800000/sd@3,0

selecting c0t3d0: ROOTRZ26
[disk formatted]
Warning: Current Disk has mounted partitions.

format> verify
Primary label contents:

Volume name = <ROOTRZ26>
ascii name = <DEC-RZ26-Solaris cyl 2568 alt 2 hd 14 sec 57>
pcyl = 2570 Physical Cylinders
ncyl = 2568 Number of Usable Cyliders
acyl = 2 Number of Reserve Cylinders
nhead = 14 Number of Heads
nsect = 57 Number of Sectors/Track

On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, Zach Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb 1998, John Armstrong wrote:
> > Does anyone have details of the disk geometry of DEC's RZ26L disk to hand,
> > please?
>
> I ran into the same problem a while ago.. I manged to find some mailing
> list archive somewhere that had bsd boot messages with one of those
> (obnixious) drives...
>
> RZ26L:
> sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <DEC, RZ26L (C) DEC, 440C> SCSI2 0/direct
> fixed
> sd0: sd0(ncr0:0:0): FAST SCSI-2 100ns (10 Mb/sec) offset 8.
> 1001MB, 3117 cyl, 8 head, 82 sec, 512 bytes/sec
>
> dunno if thats what you want or not, but there you have it :)
>
> -- zach
>
>

, JimL
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