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Conference hydra::axp-developer

Title:Alpha Developer Support
Notice:[email protected], 800-332-4786
Moderator:HYDRA::SYSTEM
Created:Mon Jun 06 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:3722
Total number of notes:11359

3210.0. "htmlscript Corporation" by HYDRA::AXPDEVELOPER (Alpha Developer support) Mon Feb 17 1997 17:59

    Company Name :  htmlscript Corporation
    Contact Name :  Joe Austin
    Phone        :  619 490 2570
    Fax          :  
    Email        :  
    Date/Time in :  17-FEB-1997 17:52:19
    Entered by   :  Marvin Davis
    SPE center   :  MRO

    Category     :  UNIX
    OS Version   :  
    System H/W   :  


    Brief Description of Problem:
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He is adding a foreign disk to his system. He needs help with disktab and
disklabel.

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3210.1HYDRA::DAVISTue Feb 18 1997 09:1221
    Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 15:14:02 -0800
    From: Joe Austin <[email protected]>
    Organization: Htmlscript Corporation
    X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; BSD/OS 2.0 i386)
    Mime-Version: 1.0
    To: [email protected], [email protected]
    Subject: DEC ALPHAstation 255 and JAZ SCSI Drive
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    Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
    
    I have a Iomega JAZ 1GB SCSI drive and a DEC ALPHAstation
    255 running Unix.
    
    I am a sophisticated Unix user, but have not been able to
    get this drive setup on the Alpha.  The controller sees
    it just fine, but I have not been able to do anything
    with disklabel working.
    
    Help.
    
    
3210.2HYDRA::DAVISTue Feb 18 1997 09:1926
    To:lavin@hydra
    cc:sebeika@hydra
    Subject:Broadbase call 
    --------
    Leo-
    
    Could you please give Joe Austin a call at htmlscript Corporation 619
    490 2570.
    He is trying to set up disktab and disklable for a foreign disk.
    The broadbase log number is 3210. They are in California.
    
    He writes-
    
    I have a Iomega JAZ 1GB SCSI drive and a DEC ALPHAstation
        255 running Unix.
    
        I am a sophisticated Unix user, but have not been able to
        get this drive setup on the Alpha.  The controller sees
        it just fine, but I have not been able to do anything
        with disklabel working.
    
    
    Thanks-
    
    Marvin 
    
3210.3HYDRA::DAVISWed Feb 19 1997 10:1715
    It turns out this is a known problem with 4.0 and the Jaz diskes. it is
    described in detail in note 8865 of the Digital UNIX conference.
    
    Using some suggestions from that note Joe developed a workaround which
    is:
    
    1. copy any disklable to the Jaz disk using dd.
    
    2. run newfs
    
    newfs seems to able to get the required info off the JAZ while
    disklabel cannot. It then fixes the label and completes its function.
    
    Marvin