From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 14 7: 5:30 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 8B67314FEF for ; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 07:05:05 -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 dBEF4xV05389; Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:04:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <002f01bf4644$39b70780$03a06bcf@interlinks.net> From: "Bill Sandiford" To: Cc: References: <199912140532.AAA76033@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: help adding new drive - getting newfs error Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 10:02:22 -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 no...I used them with wd2...the commands I quoted were direct from the handbook and I substitued wd2 in wherever i saw da1 Still need help...please ----- Original Message ----- From: Crist J. Clark To: Bill Sandiford Cc: Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 1999 12:32 AM Subject: Re: help adding new drive - getting newfs error > Bill Sandiford wrote, > [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > > 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 > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message