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Date:      Fri, 5 Jun 1998 15:01:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@cpl.net>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adding SCSI hard drive
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980605150044.28541B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980604221907.14234@cpl.net>

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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.

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