Subject: HSD05 formatting
To: NetBSD/vax Mailing List <port-vax@NetBSD.org>
From: meltie <port-vax@microvax.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/10/2004 12:30:50
Hi again guys :)

I've got myself a storageworks shelf (with floor-stand hardware and the 
smoked doors :D ) that has 3 SBBs and a HSD05 DSSI<->SCSI unit. It's 
hooked up to my 4000/200 with a KFQSA MSCP DSSI card, and i've set it up 
so that I can SET HOST/DUP/UQSSP/DISK 0 into the HSD05 and run all the 
setup utils and toys there.

However, I don't know how to partition these disks under NetBSD - i've had 
a bit of a fiddle with disklabel but quite frankly I get a bit lost, and 
most of the time disklabel locks up on me anyway - I suspect this is 
because it cannot know the true geometry of the disk it is talking to, but 
that's just a supposition...

The three disks I have appear to the VAX firmware as DIS610, DUA620 and 
DUA630 - all appearing as RF72 disks, and the VAX is netbooting NetBSD 
1.5.2.

Can anyone explain to me how I can get these babies formatted so I can 
eventually install NetBSD on them? 

TIA
alex/melt