From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 9 12:08:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id MAA19051 for current-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:08:11 -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 MAA19043 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:08:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from ipro.ipro.com by ipro.com (8.7.4/SMI-SVR4) id MAA27277; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:08:05 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199701092008.MAA27277@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 12:15:29 -0800 To: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ken Ingram Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thank you to the folks that have been trying to help. I'm still running into problems getting the bloody thing mounted. This is a listing of what the system is aware of and why: ***** Error message after typing 'newfs /dev/wd2s1e' newfs: /dev/wd2s1e: No such file or directory This error occurs yet the disklabel is built as suggested: # /dev/rwd2c: type: ESDI disk: wd2s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 4032 cylinders: 525 sectors/unit: 2120769 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 2120769 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 525*) e: 2120769 0 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 525*) ******* Working on device /dev/rwd2 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=526 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=526 heads=64 sectors/track=63 (4032 blks/cyl) Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 0 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 2120769 (1035 Meg), flag 80 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 525/ sector 63/ head 63 The data for partition 1 is: The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: This is a discrepancy to me and I don't quite understand. I'm willing to read what ever I need to for the information, but I don't have months in which to delay this project so I can format the dang drive! ------------------------- /var/log/messages --------------------- Jan 8 10:17:12 inews /kernel: wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): Jan 8 10:17:12 inews /kernel: wd2: 1036MB (2121840 sectors), 2105 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S --Ken ________________________________________________________________________ Ken Ingram kingram@ipro.com | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POST NO BILLS