From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 9 10:55:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA15181 for current-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:55:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipro.com (farad.ipro.com [204.179.121.96]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA15175 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:55:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipro.ipro.com by ipro.com (8.7.4/SMI-SVR4) id KAA22100; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 10:55:12 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199701091855.KAA22100@ipro.com> X-Sender: kingram@ipro.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 11:02:36 -0800 To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.org From: Ken Ingram Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Never mind the fdisk it works. But something else bothers me... I have two IDE drives in the system. They are exactly the same: WD0 -- \ WD2 -- / Maxtor 71084A 1036MB(2121840 sectors),2105 cyls,16 heads 63 sector/track, 512 bytes/sector However, The disklabel info for wd0 says: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 4032 cylinders: 525 sectors/unit: 2120769 And for wd2 I edited the disklabel entry to duplicate the entry somewhat. My question is: Why do i have to spend hours of time cross-referencing every damn thing when all I want to do is format the bloody thing. Is there or is there not a simple way to do this? If there is a simple way what should be investigated when it isn't working as described (e.g. FAQ part 2.15)? At 09:58 AM 1/9/97 -0800, Ken Ingram wrote: >Thanks. I looked it over and tried some things but it's so poorly written >that I'm now more confused than ever. > >If I run fdisk manually I can't get it to recognize wd2. > > > > > > >At 07:30 AM 1/9/97 +0100, J Wunsch wrote: >>As Ken Ingram wrote: >> >>> I've added a second IDE Hard Drive to the FreeBSD-based mail server. >>> What documents do I need to peruse to properly partion the drive so I >>> can mount it? >> >>See the FAQ, section 2.15. Preferably, use the updated FAQ on >>http://www.freebsd.org/. >> >>-- >>cheers, J"org >> >>joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE >>Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) >> >> > >--Ken >________________________________________________________________________ >Ken Ingram kingram@ipro.com | >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > POST NO BILLS > > > --Ken ________________________________________________________________________ Ken Ingram kingram@ipro.com | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POST NO BILLS