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From: John Capo <jc@irbs.com>
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Subject: Re: ** How to add second SCSI disk ? **
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 21:13:47 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: kallio@jyu.fi, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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
> 
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