From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 9 13:58:35 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id NAA23872 for current-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:58:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA23850 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:57:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA15469; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:54:36 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id WAA19902; Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:40:13 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:40:13 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: kingram@ipro.com (Ken Ingram) Cc: FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding Hard Drives - Prepping References: <199701091550.HAA11473@ipro.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199701091550.HAA11473@ipro.com>; from Ken Ingram on Jan 9, 1997 07:57:49 -0800 Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Ken Ingram wrote: > Where do I begin? Disklabel gets me: > > #disklabel -r -w wd2 auto > disklabel: /dev/rwd2c: Undefined error: 0 That should not happen. :) Try the following in preparation, to clean out old dirt first: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd2 count=100 Also, do add the -B flag to the disklabel command, even if you're never going to boot off it. It will prevent the kernel from pestering you with silly warnings later. -- 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. ;-)