From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 23 19:24:51 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA06356 for current-outgoing; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 19:24:51 -0700 Received: from unix10.pressimage.fr (unix10.pressimage.fr [194.2.222.2]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA06350 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 1995 19:24:48 -0700 Received: from [194.150.2.33] (mon3-01.planete.net [194.150.2.33]) by unix10.pressimage.fr (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id EAA19050; Thu, 24 Aug 1995 04:24:11 +0200 X-Sender: jc@mail.pressimage.fr Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-NCC-RegID: fr.pressimage Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 04:24:10 +0200 To: Stephen Hocking From: jcaron@pressimage.net (Jacques Caron) Subject: Re: How to add another disk (or slice/partitions/disklabels - confusion) Cc: current@freebsd.org Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk At 11:33 24/08/95, Stephen Hocking wrote: >I'm having a lousy time trying to add another disk. The beast in question is a >Quantum P105S, as SCSI ID 1. I have fdisk'd it, but cannot put a disklabel on >it. I'm using disklabel -r -e /dev/rsd1, it pulls up something reasonable, and >after filling in all the details it complains about not being able to write it >back to the device. Any clues? Write to /dev/rsd1sx where x is the fdisk partition you use. I remember having lost quite a while (and some hair) trying to figure this out :-( And if disklabel spits out warnings about revolutions and whatever (equal to 0), just take those lines out in the file. Hope that helps, Jacques. +-------------------------+------------------------+ |Jacques Caron | Pressimage Telematique | |jcaron@pressimage.net | 5/7 rue Raspail | |Tel: +33 (1) 49 88 63 56 | 93108 Montreuil Cedex | |Fax: +33 (1) 49 88 63 64 | France | +-------------------------+------------------------+