On Wednesday 10 March 2004 12:30, meltie wrote:
> 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

C'mon guys, no-one here can explain how to format an ra* drive?

:(
alex/melt