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Date:      Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:37:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Gary Algier <gaa@dgms.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I can't disklabel a disk slice.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809132236000.1111-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <35FABB9D.D401D956@dgms.com>

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On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Gary Algier wrote:

> I have been struggling with disklabel in an attempt to disklabel a new slice.
> I can get it to disklabel a whole disk, but not a slice:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [whole disk -- this is a zip disk BTW]
>         # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd1 count=2
>         2+0 records in
>         2+0 records out
>         1024 bytes transferred in 0.040394 secs (25350 bytes/sec)
>         # disklabel -Brw sd1 auto  
>         # disklabel sd1
>         # /dev/rsd1c:
>         type: unknown

This is a problem, the system can't identify the disk type.  What's the
dmesg output for your disks?

Also see http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ for info.

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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