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Date:      Thu, 6 Aug 1998 11:43:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        William Woods <wwoods@cybcon.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Zip Help...please
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808061143140.28098-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980731153204.wwoods@cybcon.com>

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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


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