Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 21:13:47 -0400 (EDT) From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: kallio@jyu.fi, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ** How to add second SCSI disk ? ** Message-ID: <199508170113.VAA19208@irbs.irbs.com> In-Reply-To: <199508161823.DAA29401@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Aug 17, 95 03:53:40 am
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Trivial as long as you understand that fdisk is broken. It does not calculate ending C/H/S properly from the size. It wants to start the partition on cylinder 1, head 2. It is still hardwired for rsd0d. Its behaviour is different when invoked on r[sw]d0 vs. r[sw]d0c. And error messages about operation not supported are OK, maybe, sometimes. :-( Just went through this with two systems but I didn't have time to really debug the problem. The labels finally stuck and I got the drives installed. I want to visit it again when I have time and a drive I can hack on. John Capo IRBS Engineering Michael Smith writes: > > Seppo Kallio stands accused of saying: > > I am very dissapointed: Adding second SCSI disk drive to the FreeBSD system > > seems to be very complicated! > > Nooo, it's very trivial. I can't understand why people have so much > trouble with it 8( > > > Is one solution to make new disk with root partition only and install some > > minimal system on it? > > No. Feed the disk to fdisk -i, then disklabel it, then newfs your > filesystems. Should take all of a minute or two, once you work out > what's going on. > > > 2. How is it possible that this is not a FAQ? > > It _is_ a FAQ, but nobody's written an entry for it. Tell you what, > if you want, I'll talk you through it & you can write the entry. Deal? 8) > > > Seppo > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[ >
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