From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 10 05:16:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65ABD16A403 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:16:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9E6743D49 for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:16:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so576574wxc for ; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 22:16:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pdm3u8w4owY2v2aroJXO38Qr0BURyNhvXmio1kbBM2h2i/6IdKAu2VmYiuE4vll/z0yDM/tIfnim3NyjiIWQJ9ebA8WU/44MCum/6qzLUB4zJNbX/pF0ziFk6NYgwxMKWFs+dmorBCUcOOx9sYApyJ147H62nJf5D6IAa38FjUI= Received: by 10.70.52.6 with SMTP id z6mr474375wxz; Sun, 09 Apr 2006 22:16:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.57.15 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Apr 2006 22:16:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:16:56 -0500 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: Peter In-Reply-To: <20060410044418.98537.qmail@web60015.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060410044418.98537.qmail@web60015.mail.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: seeking help on "adding a disk" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:16:57 -0000 On 4/9/06, Peter 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. -- --