From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 17 11:16:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA15294 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:16:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [209.118.174.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15284 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:16:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@glue.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA20296; Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:13:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 13:13:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@picnic.mat.net To: Doug White cc: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: starting up the 3rd SCSI disk In-Reply-To: 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 Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Doug White wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > OK, I didn't do the dd step before, that's made a change. I got it > > disklabeled (dang. ded. mode), and did the newfs, but at the end I got: > > > > newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid argument > > newfs: /dev/rsd2e: can't rewrite disk label > > > > > Well, I've saved the output of the newfs and disklabel here so you can > > chop them off in the reply: > > > > ROOT:/usr2/chuckr:102 >disklabel sd2 > > # /dev/rsd2c: > > type: SCSI > > disk: amnesiac > > label: fictitious > > Erm, try > > disklabel -r sd2 > > to get the on-disk disklabel, not the in-core one... Oh, I did that on any actual operation. I finally found the problem. In the handbook, it shows that you have to do a dd of two sectors before you begin, which is what my original list didn't have. I don't know why the dd is in there, but my disk is now up and running (yes, it's dangerously dedicated, but the "dd" above is the command, not an abbreviation). > > > newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid argument > > newfs: /dev/rsd2e: can't rewrite disk label > > This disk is 'dangerously dedicated', right? > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message