[TUHS] /dev/drum
Rudi Blom
rudi.j.blom at gmail.com
Tue Apr 24 17:10:35 AEST 2018
>Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 13:51:07 -0400
>From: Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com>
>To: Ron Natalie <ron at ronnatalie.com>
>Cc: Tim Bradshaw <tfb at tfeb.org>, TUHS main list <tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org>
>Subject: Re: [TUHS] /dev/drum
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>​Exactly... For instance an RK04 was less that 5K blocks (4620 or some
>such - I've forgotten the actually amount). The disk was mkfs'ed to the
>first 4K and the left over was give to the swap system. By the time of
>4.X, the RP06 was 'partitioned' into 'rings' (some overlapping). The 'a'.
>partition was root, the 'b' was swap and one fo the others was the rest.
>Later the 'c' was a short form for copying the entire disk.
Wondered why, but I guess now I know that's the reason Digital UNIX on
alpha used the same disk layout. From a AlphaServer DS10 running
DU4.0g, output "disklabel -r rz16a"
# /dev/rrz16a:
type: SCSI
disk: BB009222
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 168
tracks/cylinder: 20
sectors/cylinder: 3360
cylinders: 5273
sectors/unit: 17773524
rpm: 7200
interleave: 1
trackskew: 66
cylinderskew: 83
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] #
NOTE: values not exact
a: 524288 0 AdvFS # (Cyl. 0 - 156*)
b: 1572864 524288 swap # (Cyl. 156*- 624*)
c: 17773524 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 5289*)
d: 0 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - -1)
e: 0 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - -1)
f: 0 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - -1)
g: 4194304 2097152 AdvFS # (Cyl. 624*- 1872*)
h: 11482068 6291456 AdvFS # (Cyl. 1872*- 5289*)
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