From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 16 20:42:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18E516A402 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:42:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 683D843D45 for ; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:42:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id k3GKgBd3010229; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:42:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id k3GKgBp7010228; Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:42:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200604162042.k3GKgBp7010228@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: petermatulis@yahoo.ca (Peter) Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:42:11 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20060416152213.20053.qmail@web60014.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: seeking help on "adding a disk" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:42:13 -0000 > > > > > > > > > This is all I have: > > > > > > $ ls -lh /dev/r* > > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 10 Apr 9 15:55 /dev/random > > > > > > No raw devices. > > > > Yes. devices don't just show up and stay there any more. They > > are managed by devfs. I haven't studied that to see just how > > it works yet, so I don't know at which point it should start showing > > up in /dev if ever. > > > > I just figured trying a newfs with the /dev/r... might be something > > to try out to see what happened - sort of an experiment and if that > > doesn't do it, then maybe the thing to pursue is your concern about > > the cables. > > > > If that doesn't work, I think this has gone beyond any problems I > > have > > ever had so I don't know what else to suggest. Hopefully someone > > else > > will have some thing to say. > > > > ////jerry > > > I changed to a UDMA 133 cable (80-wire) and that solved the problem; > the newfs command succeeded! So, you were right in the first place. Well, that is often the way it is. Enjoy, ////jerry > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >