From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 10 20: 8:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2ED737B41C for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 20:08:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from shiva-dhcp-96.dial.upmc.edu (HELO ALBINI) (128.147.34.96) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Dec 2001 04:08:01 -0000 Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:07:13 -0500 From: Rod Person To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Problems creating a filesystem on a new SCSI drive. Message-Id: <20011210230713.08e9608c.roddierod@yahoo.com> Organization: Open Source Beef X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have just install a new SCSI drive, it is drive da1. I read the handbook and tried to format it in 'Dedicate' mode and 'non-dedicate'. Either way when I reach the point of issuing the following command: newfs -d0 /dev/rda1e I get the error that 'e' partition is unavailble. I have tried this a few times and I even did a low level format. Here may complete attempt. dd if=/dev/zero of /dev/rda1 bs=1k count=1 disklabel -Brw da1 auto disklable -e da1 # I didn't edit just :q out of vi newfs -d0 /dev/rda1e then the error.... What can I do or did I do wrong. I also tried to use /stand/sysinstall and the same thing happens. Rod roddierod@yahoo.com "I'm a character in a world gone wrong!" - Entombed - Returning to Madness _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message