Tommy Smith  (thsmith@online.no) wrote:

>Hi,
>

>
When using Apple HD SC and ResEdit I managed to initialize a Hitachi 
>(245282k) SCSI disk on my IIcx. :-)  I made the following partitions:
>

>
40 Mb MAC OS
>
32 Mb NetBSD root
>
20 Mb NetBSD swap
>
150 Mb NetBSD usr
>

>
Mkfs formats the three NetBSD partions, but only _half_ the size it 
>should be.  I changed the Sector Size from 256 to 512, and the partions 
>was then formatted to the right size as mentioned above :-)
>


It used to be a hard rule that NetBSD only supported sector sizes of 512 
bytes.  Unless something has changed I wouldn't expect the system to work 
properly if this was changed in Mkfs.  As I recall it just queries the 
drive and presents the user with what the drive reported, but as you 
found out it does let the user change the value.

-bob