From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 22 09:23:32 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 33AE716A400 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:23:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oliver-mailinglist@charter.net) Received: from mxsf17.cluster1.charter.net (mxsf17.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9E643D46 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:23:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oliver-mailinglist@charter.net) Received: from mxip26a.cluster1.charter.net (mxip26a.cluster1.charter.net [209.225.28.181]) by mxsf17.cluster1.charter.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k3M9NU1D024786 for ; Sat, 22 Apr 2006 05:23:30 -0400 Received: from 24-205-236-185.dhcp.snlo.ca.charter.com (HELO linux.linux) ([24.205.236.185]) by mxip26a.cluster1.charter.net with ESMTP; 22 Apr 2006 05:23:31 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.04,146,1144036800"; d="scan'208"; a="1030866866:sNHT18603872" From: Oliver Iberien To: freebsd@akruijff.dds.nl Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 02:23:27 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200604161340.09897.oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> <20060417161409.GC837@Alex1.kruijff.org> In-Reply-To: <20060417161409.GC837@Alex1.kruijff.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604220223.28370.oliver-mailinglist@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question - cannot add new 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: Sat, 22 Apr 2006 09:23:32 -0000 Thanks for your interest in this. A large part of the problem was in fact a bad cable. I went back and forth between the command line and sysinstall. They seem not to do the same things. It did seem to me that the disklabel in sysinstall and the disklabel command-line tool did not necessarily produce labels that were mutually intelligible. It looks also as if when writing with disklabel in sysinstall, one of the newly created slices has to be highlighted, something not made clear in the Handbook. I ended up making partitions instead of slices, as disklabel did not like what the sysinstall-disklabel produced. Also, the fdisk tool in sysinstall did not always wipe and create new partition entries -- it sometimes just appended new ones, although that is not what it displayed. I needed dd to actually wipe the table and start anew. This seemed to continue despite the new cable. However, I am not exactly a reliable observer, being, as stated, very new to BSD. Oliver On Monday 17 April 2006 09:14, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:40:09PM -0700, Oliver Iberien wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have been trying to add a second IDE hard drive. I can't seem to get it > > mounted, or to get what I put into sysinstall and what comes out when I > > use the command line to agree. > > Are you using the command line interface or sysinstall to configure the > disk? This is not clear to me. If you tried sysinstall did it give any > errors about the geometry? What did you do at that point?