Subject: Help with Disk parameters
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Frank DeChellis <frankd@iaw.on.ca>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/12/2002 14:25:25
Hi.

We just installed an IDE RAID array using an Adaptec 2400a.  Looks like a
nice product...but here's my thing.

The drive comes up as 57241 MB, 7297 Cyl, 255 heads, 63 Sec, 512 bytes/sec

I did a disklabel to get the numbers our and wrote them back to the drive
after editing them.

When I try to newfs a partition it says:

With 16065 Sectors/Cylinder the minimum cyl/group is 64, block size must be
changed from 8192 to 32768 and fragment size changed from 1024 to 4096

What the heck to I change???  My first instinct is to change it in the
partition table, but I feel like I would be screwing something up if I
didn't cover all the bases properly.

Any advice?

Frank

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