Partitioning hard disk and other horrors

[Steve Green]

In article <4402 at sdcc3.ucsd.EDU]  ss60ubu at sdcc3.ucsd.edu.UUCP (ANDREW MICONE) writes:
] 
] Help! here's the problem.
] 
] I have a Rodime 100meg drive, and A/UX 1.0 on an 80SC.  The latest
] version of the Rodime installer allows you to partition for A/UX
] automatically. Using dp on the drive reveals five partitions, one
] for the Rodime driver, one for HFS, and 3 for UNIX.  The three for
] unix consist of the regular apple unix partition, the partition
] table partition, and a scratch partition.  The logical size for
] these partitions all registers as zero upon observation, here are
] the questions:
] 
] 1) Do I need the latter two partitions, the System Manager's notes
] gave me the impression you only needed one partition when using the
] drive as additional data space.
	
Yes, you need the pmap partition and I as I recall, the scratch partition
is real small and is used by the driver.

] 2) What do I set the logical size to? I can't do a mkfs on the drive
] without setting it, but I don't know what to set it to since I can't
] determine how much space the other two unix partitions take up, nor
] exactly the size of a block (I read in one place it was 512 bytes,
] and off of the mkfs command that it was 1024 bytes).  Where can I
] get the block size from? I have the disk partitioned for 50megs HFS
] and 50megs A/UX.

Set the logical size to the same as the physical size.

But wait.....there's more....  What you have discovered is that there is a
problem with the rodime partitioning software.  You have to set the bzb_type
of the partiton also.  From dp, chose to change the partition, then pick the 'b'
option.  You must do this for swap and [root&] usr partitions.  At this point,
if I have not forgotten something, you should be able to mkfs.

				steveg at tove.umd.edu