I recently put a 9gb scsi drive into my IPX. However, in trying to newfs it
I've run into a problem.
Excerpt from my disklabel:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 256
tracks/cylinder: 8
sectors/cylinder: 2048
cylinders: 9078
total sectors: 18591744
8 partitions:
#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
  a:   819200        0     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 - 399)
  b:   262144   819200       swap                        # (Cyl.  400 - 527)
  c: 18591744        0    unknown                        # (Cyl.    0 -
9077)
  e:  7307264  1081344     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  528 -
4095)
  f:  1228800  8388608     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 4096 -
4695)

sd0a and sd0e newfs just fine. sd0f and anything beyond do not:
xiamin@ghostpriest ~ % sudo newfs sd0f
wtfs: write error for sector 1228799: Invalid argument

On the console I get this:
sd0(esp0:0:0):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x2a 00 00 92
bf ff 00 00 01 00
    SENSE KEY:  Illegal Request
   INFO FIELD:  9617407
     ASC/ASCQ:  Logical Block Address Out of Range
     FRU CODE:  0x4
         SKSV:  Error in CDB, Offset 2, bit 7

So the end of the partition os out of range. I haven't quite narrowed down
the cut-off point exactly though. 

My first thought was that maybe I need to increase the bytes per sector so
that I could use smaller numbers in my disklabel. However trying to set it
to 1024 lead to messages about the checksum or magic number being invalid,
would I like to redit the disklabel?. So either my math is really off, or I
can't set it to 1024. For instance this fails:
bytes/sector: 1024
sectors/track: 256
tracks/cylinder: 8
sectors/cylinder: 2048
cylinders: 4539
total sectors: 9295872


So either I'm doing something seriously wrong with disklabel (and it has
been a while), or my IPX doesn't support harddrives above a certain size.
Can anyone help me out?
TIAt
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-Simon Raahauge DeSantis