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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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