From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 14 14:49:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA28382 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:49:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from garnet.dgms.com (garnet.dgms.com [206.67.30.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA28369 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 14:49:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gaa@dgms.com) Received: from dgms.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by garnet.dgms.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00598; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 17:46:55 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gaa@dgms.com) Message-ID: <35FD8ECF.F915CB45@dgms.com> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 17:46:55 -0400 From: Gary Algier X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I can't disklabel a disk slice. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu wrote: > On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, Gary Algier wrote: > > I have been struggling with disklabel in an attempt to disklabel > > a new slice. I am trying to work with only a "slice". Or as the tutorial would call it "Compatibility Mode". Note that there is no section "Making Compatibility Mode Disks Using the Command Line". One can do "disklabel -e slice-name", but one can't get "disklabel -Brw slice-name auto". There should be no need to know a "disk type" for a slice. It should be able to determine the size just as well on a sliced (Compabilty Mode) disk as for a full (Dedicated Mode) disk. > This is a problem, the system can't identify the disk type. What's the > dmesg output for your disks? ahc0:A:5: refuses synchronous negotiation. Using asynchronous transfers (ahc0:5:0): "IOMEGA ZIP 100 J.03" type 0 removable SCSI 2 sd1(ahc0:5:0): Direct-Access sd1(ahc0:5:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB sd1 could not mode sense (4). Using fictitious geometry 96MB (196608 512 byte sectors) > > Also see http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ for info. That's how I realized that sysinstall can do it, but disklabel can't. -- Gary Algier, WB2FWZ gary.algier@dgms.com +1 609 608 2758 DGM&S Telecom, 1025 Briggs Rd, Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054 Fax:+1 609 866 8850 Paul Petzoldt on the renaming of Mount Washington: "I Call it the New England Booby Trap. We see Ph.D.'s from private schools taking kids up there in shorts. People die like flies up there!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message