Re: newfs problems with large drive?

[Gunther Nikl <gni%gecko.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 06:05:05PM -0500, John Klos wrote:
> It's a Maxtor 250 gig (stupid numbering) IDE drive on an ACARD SCSI to
> IDE adapter. The adapter supports 48 bit addressing, so that shouldn't be
> an issue.

  Which firmware revision are you using? Does it work from the AmigaOS side?
  I do have an 60GB (=55GB) drive only.

> But when I try to newfs a filesystem which is the whole size of the drive
> minus 130 megs or so, I get this:
> 
> reva# newfs /dev/sd1d
> With 139264 sectors per cylinder, minimum cylinders per group is 1
> This requires the block size to be changed from 8192 to 16384
>         and the fragment size to be changed from 1024 to 2048
> 
> Then this:
> 
> reva# newfs -b 16384 -f 2048 /dev/sd1d
> inode blocks/cyl group (32) >= data blocks (-317440)
> number of cylinders per cylinder group (61608) must be increased.

  You should probably try another list eg. tech-kern.

> Relatedly, does anyone have any ideas about how it would be possible to
> mount partitions from a macppc NetBSD machine on the Amiga, and vice
> versa? Moving 150 gigs via 10-base-T is something I really would rather
> not do...

  How about using the raw disk with eg. tar or pax?

  Gunther