Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 20:54:14 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Valgar Allslayer <Valgar@cu-online.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980117205340.6065B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <000e01bd2249$2f68db80$331011c0@quasimodo.isdn.uiuc.edu>
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On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Valgar Allslayer wrote: > I'm attempting to mount a second IDE drive on my Freebsd box... > Here are the numbers.. > The original drive is a 5.1 gig Maxtor > the drive I am trying to mount is a 1.7 gif fujitsu. > I'm using version 2.2.2-Release of Freebsd. > > When I use sysinstall to partition etc, the partitioning goes well, but once > I go to the label part of it, it returns > "error mounting /dev/wd2s1e on /cdrom : invalid argument" > (I'm mounting it on /cdrom just as a test, I have also tried /drive2 with > the same results) > When I try mounting it manually from shell I get "Invalid superblock" > When I attempt to newfs it I get x partition not available (where x is any > partition I throw at it) Can you please be *very specific* as to what you're doing? I don't understand where the error message comes from. Also see http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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