From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 11 19:51:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA13274 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 19:51:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.kersur.net (root@mail.kersur.net [199.79.199.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13249 for ; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 19:50:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dswartz@druber.com) Received: from manticore (manticore.druber.com [207.180.95.108]) by mail.kersur.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA01951; Sat, 11 Jul 1998 22:51:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980711225044.00939240@mail.kersur.net> X-Sender: druber@mail.kersur.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 22:50:44 -0400 To: Doug White From: Dan Swartzendruber Subject: Re: can't access new disks? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <3.0.5.32.19980708073736.0094da40@mail.kersur.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:41 PM 7/11/98 -0700, Doug White wrote: >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. I'm confused. I have no such devices. Nor will MAKEDEV create anything that looks like that (e.g. a diskname ending with 'c'). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message