Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:16:56 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: seeking help on "adding a disk" Message-ID: <d7195cff0604092216y6582cb99r786f03fae4307fb7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060410044418.98537.qmail@web60015.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060410044418.98537.qmail@web60015.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 4/9/06, Peter <petermatulis@yahoo.ca> wrote: > # fdisk -B -I /dev/ad2 I don't believe you need this step if you are going to do: > # bsdlabel -w -B /dev/ad2s1 Though I think you want to merely do #bsdlabel -Bw /dev/ad2 . . . (I was and still am under the impression that fdisk is not needed on dedicated freebsd disks, as I have numerous times added disks without it) > Now shouldn't I have some values in the first (a:) row? Not if you don't have a filesystem in there, which should lead you to newfs, as, > Anyway, when I try to create a filesystem with newfs I get an error: > > # newfs /dev/ad2s1a > ..., 450493504, 450869856, 451246208,newfs: wtfs: 65536 bytes at sector > 451622560: Input/output error #newfs -U /dev/ad2a is what I would try first. or depending on how large of files I was planning on having futzing with -b -i -f as well. > Furthermore, the docs [1] for this drive say that an 80-wire cable is > required. I didn't have one handy so I had to > use a 40-wire cable. Could this be causing the trouble? It shouldn't be able to run at better than udma66 (I think) with a 40 conductor cable, though it should autodetect that and default to the slower speed. If it's not, I could see problems. Good luck. -- --
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