Subject: Re: correct disktab for RD54?
To: Frederik Meerwaldt <Meerwaldt@t-online.de>
From: Bertram Barth <bertram@gummo.bbb.sub.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/21/2000 04:59:41
Frederik Meerwaldt writes:
> Hi!
> 
> > A few weeks ago Tim Shoppy mentioned on this list that the disktab
> > entry regarding the RD54 is incorrect.
> 
> I had no problems on my MicroVAX II. I've installed NetBSD/vax on it, and
> it works just fine. My drives aren't messed up. I did a netboot, and then:

The problem Tim Shoppa mentioned only bites when the disk gets "overful".
There are some reserved sectors at the very end of the disk (which are not
reserved by the above mentioned disktab entry and thus might be clobbered).

Ciao,
	bertram