From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 17:35:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp015.mail.yahoo.com (smtp015.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B73137B405 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:35:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from unknown (HELO ALBINI) (128.147.34.43) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 13 Dec 2001 01:35:10 -0000 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 20:34:19 -0500 From: Rod Person To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems creating a filesystem on a new SCSI drive. Message-Id: <20011212203419.782fd0f5.roddierod@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20011211171009.E232@gohan.cjclark.org> References: <20011210230713.08e9608c.roddierod@yahoo.com> <20011211171009.E232@gohan.cjclark.org> Organization: Open Source Beef X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It was Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:10:09 -0800 when I read this: > > dd if=/dev/zero of /dev/rda1 bs=1k count=1 > > disklabel -Brw da1 auto > > Why are you making it bootable? Not sure. I was reading the handbook and this was the specific example given for adding a 2nd scsi drive. I just assumed there was some reason. > > disklable -e da1 # I didn't edit just :q out of vi > > Was there a 'e' partition at this point? No there was no e partition at this point. In fact there seemed to be no partitions created. > > newfs -d0 /dev/rda1e > > What does 'disklabel' say? here is the disklabel output for the new drive... # /dev/da1: type: SCSI disk: DEC label: RZ29B (C) DEC flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 4091 sectors/unit: 8380080 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 8380080 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 4091*) > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message roddierod@yahoo.com "I'm a character in a world gone wrong!" - Entombed - Returning to Madness _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message