From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 1 15:45:01 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id PAA06021 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 15:45:01 -0800 Received: from freedom.wit.com (freedom.wit.com [144.92.88.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA06006 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 15:44:58 -0800 Received: (from root@localhost) by freedom.wit.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id RAA01552 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 1 Feb 1995 17:47:13 GMT From: Jeff Carr Message-Id: <199502011747.RAA01552@freedom.wit.com> Subject: disklabel problem To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 1 Feb 1995 17:47:12 +0000 () X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1494 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm hopeing someone might be able to help me with this problem:? We have 7 drives on 2 scsi controllers. All the drives worked. I had partitioned them under 1.1.5.1. The drives are each 3gig. I had to partition them into 2 and 1 gig partitions. Now we have FreeBSD 2.0. I thought I would create large partitions since this should be possible. For 3 of the drives(sd1,sd2 and sd6) disklabel works fine, I did a new disklabel and newfs and mounted the successfully. For the other 3 drives, I can't run disklabel at all. I tried every option and it always says the same thing: "Device not configured" freedom#disklabel sd3 disklabel: /dev/rsd3c: Device not configured freedom#disklabel sd4 disklabel: /dev/rsd4c: Device not configured freedom#disklabel -r sd3 disklabel: /dev/rsd3c: Device not configured freedom#disklabel /dev/rsd3a disklabel: /dev/rsd3a: Device not configured I tried to make new devices with MAKEDEV. I tried checking the config file for the kernel and made a new one. Still the same. The strange thing is that on the drives that don't disklabel, I can still do a newfs on the a & b partitions and mount them and use them. So, I reformated one of the drives with the SCSI controller(sd3) and tried to do a disklabel and it doesn't work and I can't do a newfs now either. So, I am left with a two fragmented drives and one I cant use at all now. Please help me if you can, You're operating system has be very good as a whole and we are quite pleased with it. jcarr@wit.com