From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 23:11:31 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id XAA10827 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 23:11:31 -0800 Received: from ptnsct.nis.za (ptnsct.nis.za [196.6.121.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id XAA10820 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 1995 23:11:22 -0800 Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 9:08:56 +0200 (O) From: ROBIN@ptnsct.nis.za (Robin Hunt) Message-Id: <950329090856.2712c@ptnsct.nis.za> Subject: Drive question, try # 2 To: questions@FreeBSD.org X-Vmsmail-To: SMTP%"questions@freebsd.org" Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, This is a repeat of my previous message which remains unanswered: I have a 486DX2-80 (16 Meg) running 2.0 SNAP 950213 (or thereabouts). It has a 2 Meg caching IDE controller and (currently) on 540 meg conner driver. I am trying to add a second drive, being an 850Mb Conner CFA850A. If I use sysinstall to add the drive, it works fine (FDISK/DISKLABEL/MOUNTPOINTS) until I select (P)roceed. Then it just halts. At this point it has added the partition table and disklabel. If I run newfs on it, that also works, fsck does too. I am then able to mount the drive. However, if I then umount the drive and reboot, the fsck fails with "BAD MAGIC NUMBER", and the drive is effectively trashed. The fault does not lie with the drive since I was able to install FreeBSD with no problem onto the drive with the drive in a machine by itself. Please, I would appreciate a few suggestions... Replies to: robin@ptnsct.nis.za