From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 11 17:10:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net (hawk.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 244B137B416 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:10:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-38lc2kt.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.10.157] helo=gohan.cjclark.org) by hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Dxuh-0000Sn-00; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:10:24 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by gohan.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id fBC1AAO04153; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:10:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:10:09 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Rod Person Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Problems creating a filesystem on a new SCSI drive. Message-ID: <20011211171009.E232@gohan.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20011210230713.08e9608c.roddierod@yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011210230713.08e9608c.roddierod@yahoo.com>; from roddierod@yahoo.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:07:13PM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:07:13PM -0500, Rod Person wrote: > 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 Why are you making it bootable? > disklable -e da1 # I didn't edit just :q out of vi Was there a 'e' partition at this point? > newfs -d0 /dev/rda1e What does 'disklabel' say? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message