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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 20:54:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Valgar Allslayer <Valgar@cu-online.com>
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Subject: Re: Mounting drive
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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
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