From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 14:09:24 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id OAA07905 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 14:09:24 -0700 Received: from alpha.enc.edu (alpha.enc.edu [199.93.252.250]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id OAA07886 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 14:09:16 -0700 Received: by alpha.enc.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03 rev 11/30/94) id AA16206; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 17:07:47 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 17:07:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Charles N. Owens" To: questions list FreeBSD Subject: HELP!: adding second disk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I've tried to figure this out, but am having trouble. I'm trying to add a second drive to my system. It's a Seagate ST15230W SCSI-2 WIDE 4 GIG drive. The controller and FBSD recognize it's existence fine, but I'm having trouble attacking it with fdisk and disklabel. Is the correct procedure for me to: 1. fdisk -u Make one partition, type 165, using whole drive. 2. Add entry to /etc/disktab defining my drive. 3. do a disklabel -r -w /dev/sd1 st15320w ? I tried the fdisk step, and it seems to be fixated on what the BIOS thinks. Does it mean the SCSI controller BIOS or the system BIOS? I don't think that the system BIOS should know a thing about either of my SCSI drives. Fdisk kept telling my that the #of tracks is 90, when I know it's 114, and when I try to tell it differently, it doesn't budge. Here is my new /etc/disktab entry: st15230w|Seagate ST15230W 4 Gig SCSI-2 WIDE:\ :dt=SCSI:ty=winchester:se#512:nt#19:ns#114:nc#3992:\ :pa#192774:oa#0:ta=swap:\ :pb#197106:ob#192774:bb#4096:fa#512:tb=4.2BSD:\ :pc#8646672:oc#0:\ :pd#8256792:od#389880:bd#4096:fd#512:td=4.2BSD:\ Should this be OK? Of course, when I tried to run disklabel, I get the following: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device, but I wouldn't expect it to work in light of the trouble I'm having with fdisk. Could someone shed some light on this situation? thanks, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------