Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:40:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Joshua Fielden <shaggy@thoroweb.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wierd happenings with "shared" IDE drives... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971208153957.13271e-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971208095140.shaggy@thoroweb.com>
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On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Joshua Fielden wrote: > This weekend, I finally re-installed BSD on my home system.The > boot drive is a 1.6g EIDE drive. I also have an adaptec 2920 > with two FAT32 drives, and one drive I will set up for BSD. > The main drive is partitioned 500mb FAT16, ~1.1g BSD. In that > partition, I have /, /var, /usr, and swap. During the course > of a normal reboot, I came up with "automatic filesystem check > failed-HELP!", and what caused it is that /dev/wd0s2(b|e|f) had > disappeared. /dev/rwd... are all there, so I could fsck to my > heart's content, but couldn't remake the devices, because MAKEDEV > would return "chown: not found" and exit. What exists on /? You should have a /bin dir with chown in it. > BTW: this has happened with BSD: > 2.1.5, 2.2, 2.2.2, 2.2.5, and 3.0(various) on three machines. Can you explain what a shared IDE drive is? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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