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From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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Subject: Re: help adding new drive - getting newfs error
In-Reply-To: <001301bf45bd$2a2d98b0$03a06bcf@interlinks.net> from Bill Sandiford at "Dec 13, 1999 05:55:28 pm"
To: sysop@interlinks.net (Bill Sandiford)
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 00:32:59 -0500 (EST)
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Bill Sandiford wrote,
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> 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<rdy,seekdone,drq,err> error 10<no_id>
> 
> Any help would be appreciated

Ummm... Seems to be some confusion here. Might just be from the mail,
but I can't say for sure.

In all of the stuff you quote, you refer to /dev/da1 (a SCSI HDD), but
your error message refers to wd2 (a IDE HDD). So, did you really use
those commands with 'da1?'
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@home.com


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