From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 23 1:32:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.resfeber.se (Resfeber-gw.customer.internet5.net [195.66.48.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DDE37B718 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 01:32:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon.molin@resfeber.se) Received: from resfeber.se ([212.75.72.9]) by mail2.resfeber.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA04488 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:23:57 +0100 Message-ID: <3ABB18BA.38B12678@resfeber.se> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:34:50 +0100 From: Jon Molin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Adding a new drive Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm trying to add a new drive to my computer with no luck at all. I read http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/disks-adding.html and thought it looked really easy. I followed all it said in the guide using sysinstall and got error messages saying 'Error mounting /dev/ad1s1a on / : Device not configured' but didn't worry since the guide said there would be error messages when writing the label. But when i exit there's no info left. I've tried booting slackware and using cfdisk to make a bsd partition of it and it seemed to stay but when i boot up my freebsd there's no table left. I've tried doing it manualy with same result. jmo# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rad1 bs=1k count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1024 bytes transferred in 0.000889 secs (1151775 bytes/sec) jmo# fdisk -BI ad1 ******* Working on device /dev/ad1 ******* fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found dmesg: ad0: 19092MB [38792/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 ad1: 6187MB [13410/15/63] at ata0-slave UDMA33 fdisk output: jmo# fdisk ad1 ******* Working on device /dev/ad1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=13410 heads=15 sectors/track=63 (945 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=13410 heads=15 sectors/track=63 (945 blks/cyl) fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 12672387 (6187 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 97/ sector 63/ head 14 Anyone got a clue? I've tried searching archives, asked friends and i asked it on the newbie list so i hope im not being redundant... /jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message