Hi!
In my continuing pursuit of a NeXT workstation I could only dream of when I was a kid, I'm trying to get an 18G SCSI disk working with my whitebox hardware. It's seen, and it asks to initialize the disk, but I've been avoiding it thus far because of it's size. I presently have a 2G IDE disk serving as the boot drive for OS, so I know it does run on this hardware.
I'm reading bits and pieces of people asking for help about formatting the disk into 4 or 8 gig slices, but I haven't found enough in the pointers to glue into a set of directions I can use.
Can anyone point me in the right direction or take a minute to explain what I'm supposed to do? I've figured out that I use sdformat and I have that on my machine, but beyond that I'm not sure.
Just a note - only use 4gb or smaller slices. 8GB partitions are possible to create, but they won't work right. Trust me, voice of experience ;)
I was guessing that the real limit was 4GB, so thanks for verifying that. :)
Update: When I try to init the disk, it reports it's size as 0 bytes, which I'm assuming is a disktab thing. Console reports:
/use/etc/disk -i -h localhost -l "UntitledDisk" /dev/rsd2a
disk name: SEAGATE ST318406LW 0108
disk type: fixed_rw_scsi
writing disk label
can't write label -- disk unusable!: I/O error
Here is a link to a list of disktab entries over on deadstart.net. It does not list your drive specifically, but will at least give you and idea of how one is structured. You can then use the scsimodes command, if I remember correctly, to get your drive specific details so you can make your own disktab. Search around on the forum, as the procedure is discussed in detail in a couple of threads.
http://www.deadstart.net/NeXT/disktab/Chef
Quote from: "nextchef"Search around on the forum, as the procedure is discussed in detail in a couple of threads.
... which is sort of the reason I'm posting in the first place. I'm not seeing much discussed in detail, but that may be because I'm not seeing the right things. Could you point at a thread?
Thank you for the info so far, thought. :)
A good place to start is the "cloning" thread, as it talks about a lot of stuff and links to many other threads.
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=372For more info, just use the search function and find all the threads mentioning disktab, which gives 30 or so options to dig through.
Chef