Re: tlug: Sun disk label fdisk/SCSI question

[Tim Meggs <tim@example.com>]

From: Rex Walters <rex@example.com>
Subject: Re: tlug: Sun disk label fdisk/SCSI question
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 23:33:29 +0900

> The common practice these days is to use 64 heads, 32 sectors per track
> (1 MB per cylinder).  Then just set the number of cylinders to the size

Good to know - this explains why my x86 linux machine's SCSI HDs got the
afore mentioned settings during installation.    I wonder why linux on sun 
h/w doesn't default to the same.

> The "Large-Disk" howto is pretty good reading
> (/usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Large-Disk) on a redhat box.

Thanks it was very interesting.   Was surfing the LDP HOWTOs yesterday and
passed over that one as I just assumed that it was related to the 1024 cyl
problem of IDE disks.

> SCSI and NFS I grok.  The i18n stuff flying on this list is *WAY* over
> my head....

Lucky you - seems that I don't even understand SCSI! ;)    
Actually SCSI has always been very good to me.    Just I have been having
problems with a disk [not the Quantum one I was asking about] and make the
mistake of questioning why the sun disk label info didn't match the HD's
specs.

Now the qn is whether I should go back and re part. the disk as per the norm,
or leave it as I set it up last night with fdisk's suggested 40heads, 62(??)
sectors, etc??    

tim :)
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