netbsd-help: macintosh/bernoulli/mkfs

Subject: macintosh/bernoulli/mkfs
To: 'netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG' <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Dennis <dennisb@subpop.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/10/1996 14:47:00

I'm stuck - if this is not the right place to be asking this question, 
I'd appreciate getting a recommendation for where the right place is. . . 
.
Does anyone hava any experience setting up a Bernoulli drive for the 
Macintosh to use as a hard drive in order to install netbsd?
I'm trying to set up netbsd on a MacII w/ a small HD, so I thought I'd 
use a Bernoulli Transportable 230 as a HD. I used a Mac aplication called 
Hard Drive Toolkit to format, then partition the 230 MB Bernoulli disk, 
then let the app (HDToolkit) set up A/UX partitions on the newly 
formatted disk.I used an option that set up a minimum Mac partition and a 
maximum A/UX partition (The Mac HD is about 2+ MB and the A/UX partition 
is about 227 MB. The A/UX partition is actually 4 partitions - a root, a 
swap, and a couple of others, with the root partition being the biggest - 
about 190MB)
When I try to run the apple application MKFS (downloaded from the netbsd 
site, utilities directory), I am asked for a bunch of parameters for the 
A/UX partition. Here's what MKFS wants, and the defaults that MKFS fills 
in (mkfs guesses) are:
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sector size 0
block size -
bytes/sector (hardware) -
sectors/track 40
tracks/cylinder 0
num cylinders 0
bytes/inode -
cylinders/group -
spare sectors/track -
file system size 109134
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Info that Iomega Bernoulli people faxed to me about the transportable 230 
are the following:
num cylinders 5591
Num of alternate cylinders 2
Total physical sectors 5593
number of heads 2
Sectors per track 40
Rotational speed 3600
total blocks 447,280
actual capacity 230,689,792
capacity after DOS format 230,518,784
recording surface size 5164
spares per sector 512
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I've tried a number of different entries for MKFS, but I haven't found 
the right combination yet. Everytime I try to do the FORMAT on any of the 
A/UX partitions using mkfs, the script gives me the following error:
"no default #tracks"
Any hints?
Thank you in advance
dennisburns
dennisb@subpop.com