From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 16 22:16:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA16959 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:16:49 -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 WAA16954 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:16:48 -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 WAA06128; Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:16:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:16:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Chuck Robey cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: starting up the 3rd SCSI disk 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, 14 Aug 1998, Chuck Robey wrote: > OK, I didn't do the dd step before, that's made a change. I got it > disklabeled (dang. ded. mode), and did the newfs, but at the end I got: > > newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid argument > newfs: /dev/rsd2e: can't rewrite disk label > > Well, I've saved the output of the newfs and disklabel here so you can > chop them off in the reply: > > ROOT:/usr2/chuckr:102 >disklabel sd2 > # /dev/rsd2c: > type: SCSI > disk: amnesiac > label: fictitious Erm, try disklabel -r sd2 to get the on-disk disklabel, not the in-core one... > newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid argument > newfs: /dev/rsd2e: can't rewrite disk label This disk is 'dangerously dedicated', right? 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