> >>> 	Here's a question... how do I deal with a disk w/o geometry?
> >>> I have a SCSI disk made by IBM that won't respond to the driver's
> >>> geometry request.  I would suppose that I have to figure it out... and
> >>> then somehow communicate this in the disk label?  Some hints would be
> >>> nice.  I don't think that it will be too great a problem to find info
> >>> on the true (or close to true) nature of the disk.
[...]
> >>BTW, if this IBM disk is so nonstandard as to not respond to the geometry
> >>command, don't expect it to work right on NetBSD.

Some IBM SCSI Disks like the IBM 0661371 doesn't respond to the SCSI
inquiry. That's the only problem with them. If the scsi driver can deal
with this (and the *BSD* driver can), they will work pretty good.

> I have an IBM DPES-31080 1Gig drive at home (NetBSD/i386) and at work
> (NetBSD/sparc).  I encountered the 'no geometry' problem when setting
> the one at work up with SunOS.  My solution to it was to log into my

No, the DPES-31080 respond to the inquiry but tells wrong information.
The original author described a problem which the 31080 *not* have.

Greetings
.//. Arne

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