Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 14:14:27 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: john <johng@musicman.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Drive Configuration Question Message-ID: <20010801141427.B6285@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107311839470.48007-100000@musicman.com>; from johng@musicman.com on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 06:49:54PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0107311839470.48007-100000@musicman.com>
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From: john <johng@musicman.com> Subject: Drive Configuration Question Date: Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 06:49:54PM -0400 > I have an Adaptec raid card with two Raid-I drives I'm trying to > configure. The machine is now booting from a third IDE drive, with > FreeBSD version 4.2. > > I'm trying to address two problems: > > 1) The disk label editor will not allow me to set a mount point. I've > obviously left out a step, but I'm not sure what. > > 2) I can't mount the RAID drives, even though the label editor shows that > they have FreeBSD installed on them. I'm trying to mount da0 or some > component of it, by saying "mount da0", "mount da0s1a" or some variation > thereof. It always says "unknown special file or file system". You probably left out the newfs step that creates a valid filesystem on the device. > What should I do, where can I go for more info? Post the exact steps you've taken on -questions (if you haven't already), and mention the following three things: a) What you are trying to do. b) The exact steps you have taken so far. c) What failed and how (a copy/paste of any error messages is nice here). -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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