Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 10:29:00 -0400 (EDT) From: john <johng@musicman.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Drive Configuration Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108181025380.96845-100000@musicman.com> In-Reply-To: <20010801141427.B6285@hades.hell.gr>
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Giorgos,
Thanks for your reply. You're the only one to respond to my question in
two weeks. I have tried newfs, and fdisk indicates that freebsd is on the
drive:
newfs da0
newfs: da0: `0' partition is unavailable
newfs da0s1a
newfs: da0s1a: `a' partition is unavailable
fdisk da0
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=5219 heads=227 sectors/track=33 (7491 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=5219 heads=227 sectors/track=33 (7491 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 0, size 39100416 (19092 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 1023/ sector 33/ head 226
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> From: john <johng@musicman.com>
> Subject: Drive Configuration Question
> Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 06:49:54PM -0400
>
> > I have an Adaptec raid card with two Raid-I drives I'm trying to
> > configure. The machine is now booting from a third IDE drive, with
> > FreeBSD version 4.2.
> >
> > I'm trying to address two problems:
> >
> > 1) The disk label editor will not allow me to set a mount point. I've
> > obviously left out a step, but I'm not sure what.
> >
> > 2) I can't mount the RAID drives, even though the label editor shows that
> > they have FreeBSD installed on them. I'm trying to mount da0 or some
> > component of it, by saying "mount da0", "mount da0s1a" or some variation
> > thereof. It always says "unknown special file or file system".
>
> You probably left out the newfs step that creates a valid filesystem
> on the device.
>
> > What should I do, where can I go for more info?
>
> Post the exact steps you've taken on -questions (if you haven't already),
> and mention the following three things:
>
> a) What you are trying to do.
> b) The exact steps you have taken so far.
> c) What failed and how (a copy/paste of any error messages is nice here).
>
> -giorgos
>
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