From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 8 15:41:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA29681 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:41:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA29666 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA13448; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:40:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 15:40:24 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Joshua Fielden cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wierd happenings with "shared" IDE drives... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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