Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 12:34:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Captain Jack <jack@rabbit.eng.miami.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ls-120 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811131233160.20228-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811122028320.4858-100000@rabbit.eng.miami.edu>
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On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Captain Jack wrote: > > Do you get anything out of that? It should go through a short procedure > > to lay out the superblocks. > > rabbit# newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/wfd0s1 > newfs: /dev/wfd0s1: not a character-special device Two problems: 1. /dev/wfd0s1 is not a raw device. 2. You must specify a partition to format. See disklabel. > > Hm. Do 'fdisk wfd0' and post the output. > > rabbit# fdisk wfd0 > ******* Working on device /dev/rwfd0 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=963 heads=8 sectors/track=32 (256 blks/cyl) > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=963 heads=8 sectors/track=32 (256 blks/cyl) > > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 2 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 3 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 4 is: > <UNUSED> Hm, even bigger problem -- no partition table. Please see my instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ on how to format this disk. I suggest booting with a disc in the drive to get the paramters right. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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