From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 11 19:42:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA11127 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 19:42:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA11063 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 19:41:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA06115; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 19:41:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 19:41:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Dan Swartzendruber cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't access new disks? In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980708073736.0094da40@mail.kersur.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 Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > >> * The boot-time probe is finding the new drives, yet when I try to do > >> * anything with them (such as labeling them), I get this: > >> > >> # disklabel -r -w da16s1c auto > >> disklabel: /dev/rda16s1c: Device not configured > >> > >> * Any ideas? > > > >Does da16 have an fdisk table? > > Doubt it. Brand new disk (literally). In any event, I can't even copy > from the drive (or to it), using slice 'c'. You can't access slices if you don't have an fdisk table to define the slices wih. Try /dev/rda16c. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message