You won't be able to do much with the other partitions until the
partition type is set to something recognizable (165 or 169) by fdisk.

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Ken Wellsch wrote:

> I bought a couple IBM DFHS-31080 drives from ONSALE a few weeks ago
> and I've been unable to talk to them as anything but the whole-drive.
> Here is the dmesg description from an ss20 running 1.4:
> 
>   probe(esp0:4:0): max sync rate 10.00Mb/s
>   sd1 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <IBM, DFHS, 18> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
>   sd1: 1074MB, 4385 cyl, 4 head, 125 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2199878 sectors
> 
> and here is my label:
> 
>   # /dev/rsd1c:
>   type: SCSI
>   disk: DFHSS1F
>   label: 
>   flags:
>   bytes/sector: 512
>   sectors/track: 125
>   tracks/cylinder: 4
>   sectors/cylinder: 500
>   cylinders: 4385
>   total sectors: 2192500
>   rpm: 7200
>   interleave: 1
>   trackskew: 0
>   cylinderskew: 0
>   headswitch: 0		# milliseconds
>   track-to-track seek: 1	# milliseconds
>   drivedata: 0 
> 
>   8 partitions:
>   #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:   134000        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 267)
>   b:   268000   134000       swap                        # (Cyl.  268 - 803)
>   c:  2192500        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 4384)
>   d:  1790500   402000     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.  804 - 4384)
> 
> Yet I can only "newfs" the "c" partition (i.e. full-drive) and I get this
> for say the "a" partition:
> 
>   ss20# newfs /dev/rsd1a
>   newfs: /dev/rsd1a: open: Device not configured
> 
> Ditto for partition "d".  I saw the same behavior on an Alpha box with
> a "bha" controller also running 1.4.
> 
> Is the drive doing something funky or am I doing something stupid?
> 
> -- Ken
> 

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