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Date:      Thu, 24 Aug 1995 04:24:10 +0200
From:      jcaron@pressimage.net (Jacques Caron)
To:        Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to add another disk (or slice/partitions/disklabels - confusion)
Message-ID:  <v01530500ac6192d04f32@[194.150.2.33]>

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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.

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