From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 13 14:58:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.interlinks.net (ns2.interlinks.net [207.107.160.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF8514C40 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 14:58:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sysop@interlinks.net) Received: from server (ns3.interlinks.net [207.107.160.3]) by ns2.interlinks.net (8.10.0.Beta6/8.10.0.Beta6) with SMTP id dBDMw9V09226 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:58:10 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <001301bf45bd$2a2d98b0$03a06bcf@interlinks.net> From: "Bill Sandiford" To: Subject: help adding new drive - getting newfs error Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 17:55:28 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to install a new 17.3 ide drive in my machine using one of either of the following 2 methods from the handbook # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda1 bs=1k count=1 # disklabel -Brw da1 auto # disklabel -e da1 # create the `e' partition # newfs -d0 /dev/rda1e # mkdir -p /1 # vi /etc/fstab # add an entry for /dev/da1e # mount /1 An alternate method is: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda1 count=2 # disklabel /dev/rda1 | disklabel -BrR da1 /dev/stdin # newfs /dev/rda1e # mkdir -p /1 # vi /etc/fstab # add an entry for /dev/da1e # mount /1 As soon as I run the newfs command as listed above I get the following error. Dec 13 17:53:48 ns2 /kernel: wd2c: hard error reading fsbn 33793228 of 33793228-33793231 (wd2 bn 33793228; cn 33525 tn 0 sn 28)wd2: status 59 error 10 Any help would be appreciated Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message