From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 1 23:22:18 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id XAA22597 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 1 Jan 1995 23:22:18 -0800 Received: from EDLANE.LANE.EDU (edlane.lane.edu [158.165.1.26]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA22590 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 1995 23:22:16 -0800 Received: from pmdf.lane.edu by MRED.LANE.EDU (PMDF V4.2-13 #3811) id <01HLC77HBTJK000GTH@MRED.LANE.EDU>; Sun, 1 Jan 1995 16:26:44 PST Received: with PMDF-MR; Sun, 1 Jan 1995 16:12:28 PST MR-Received: by mta EUG4JA; Relayed; Sun, 01 Jan 1995 16:12:28 -0800 MR-Received: by mta EDLANE; Relayed; Sun, 01 Jan 1995 16:18:01 -0800 Alternate-recipient: prohibited Disclose-recipients: prohibited Date: Sun, 01 Jan 1995 15:48:00 -0800 (PST) From: John-Mark Gurney Subject: disklabeling wd3 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <01HLC77L74ZA000GTH@pmdf.lane.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Posting-date: Sun, 01 Jan 1995 16:07:00 -0800 (PST) Importance: normal Priority: normal X400-MTS-identifier: [;82216110105991/374355@4JNET] A1-type: MAIL Hop-count: 1 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk well... I reciently upgraded my machine and put in a VL/Bus controler in the machine and at first just added a 40meg ide drive to the second channel... then I decided to add another drive to the second channel and now I can't disklabel it... the first drive I had no problems disklabeling... here is a little bit about my machine: 486/33DX 8megs RAM, VL/Bus motherboard 130meg and 40meg on wdc0 (standard) 40meg and 85meg on wdc1 (standard) two NE2000 clone cards, one BNC, other UTP AST VGA card (NOTE: machine is not an AST, but hand put together) this is the results of the boot up for wdc1: Jan 1 15:17:48 unix kernel: wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa Jan 1 15:17:48 unix kernel: wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): Jan 1 15:17:49 unix kernel: wd3: 85MB (174080 total sec), 1024 cyl, 10 head, I have managed to mount this when I had a dos partition... and still can as I have not been able to disklabel the drive... this is what it returns: disklabel: /dev/rwd3c: No such file or directory I have run /dev/MAKEDEV wd3, also... I have check to make sure that it does indead exist... and here is the ls -l entry for it: crw-r----- 1 root operator 3, 26 Jan 1 15:31 /dev/rwd3c this is exactly like the other rwdXc entries execpt the minor version number is less on the others... also... incase you need it... this is the disktab entry that I am trying to write to it: st3089at|Seagate 85MB IDE:\ :dt=IDE:ty=winchester:se#512:nt#10:ns#17:nc#1024:\ :pe#78200:oe#170:\ :pf#95710:of#78370:\ :pc#173910:oc#170:\ :pd#174080:od#0: I hope I can get this problem soveled... thanks for the help... John-Mark Gurney gurney_j@efn.org gurney_j@4j.lane.edu John-Mark Gurney @ 1:152/56.2@fidonet.org