From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 22:37:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA01989 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:37:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01983 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:37:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA01578; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:37:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 22:37:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Gary Algier cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I can't disklabel a disk slice. In-Reply-To: <35FABB9D.D401D956@dgms.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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