From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 11:44:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA27277 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:44:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA27238 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:43:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA08533; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:43:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:43:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: William Woods cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Zip Help...please In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, William Woods wrote: > Actually, that wasnt the problem, I had to do a ./MAKEDEV sd6 in /dev/ and that > fixed everything. > > Thanks for the quick reply though. Ok, whatever. :) Glad to be of service. > >> 100+0 records out > >> 51200 bytes transferred in 2.038929 secs (25111 bytes/sec) > >> bash-2.01# disklabel -rw sd6 zip100 > >> disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device <<-- What's > >> this? > > > > It means that sd6 didn't want your disklabel. Make sure it's found during > > the boot probes, and boot with a disc in the drive so the the drive size > > information is found. See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ > > for info. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message