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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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