From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 5 15:01:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24959 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:01:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA24917 for ; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:01:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA28554; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:01:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:01:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Shawn Ramsey cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding SCSI hard drive In-Reply-To: <19980604221907.14234@cpl.net> 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 Thu, 4 Jun 1998, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > I am attempting to add a SCSI hard drive to a system with 2 other IDE disks. > It comes up normal, finds the SCSI adapter and hard drive just fine. I then > run sysinstall, choose Custom, then Partition, then Label, then I write > changes. This works fine for IDE disks in the past. Now I get the following > error : > > Error mounting /dev/sd0s1e on /disk3: Invalid argument > > I am running 2.2-stable of several months old. > > Anyone know what might be causing this, or am I doing something wrong? You're halfway home -- you've allocated the space, now you have to make the filesystem. You need to `newfs /dev/rsd0s1e`. See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ for info. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: gdi.uoregon.edu is going down, please use dwhite@resnet! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message