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Subject: Re: Newfs Problem
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Carolyn Longfoot wrote:

> Using an Abit KT7A-RAID (Hightpoint IDE Raid) and two 60 gig IBM drives that are configured as RAID 0 (beautifully recognized as ar0 RAID 0 with two subdisk according to DMESG) I cannot get sysinstall (disklabel editor) to do a newfs on the RAID.
> 
> The error message is this:
> DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for devtype.
> 
> Following earlier posts I did a 'MAKEDEV all' but no change.

I had this exact problem with the dell Perc raid controller with
4.3-stable. For whatever reason it didnt like the way I was laying out the
FS's. I remember getting this error but cant remember how I fixed it.

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