From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 15:09:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA25576 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:09:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from super-g.inch.com (spork@super-g.com [204.178.32.161]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA25566 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 15:09:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (spork@localhost) by super-g.inch.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA02894; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:08:14 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:08:14 -0500 (CDT) From: "S(pork)" X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Don Coffin cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation of 4gig SCSI HD under 2.1.5 In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961024185203.008f4174@mail-internal.intermind.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I would pay money to have a shiny new automatic way to add disks. I did it, but I'm not very confident I've done it correctly... One thing I think would help is more /etc/disktab entries; as wresting with hard-drive tech support over definitions of T/S has made me crazy. Perhaps anyone that has actually set up any disktab entries could send them to this list? Charles On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Don Coffin wrote: > Howdy. > > I'm attempting to install a second SCSI hard drive to my system (a Dell > P133, 32megs). The new drive is a Quantum L912. All I want is a single > slice that consumes the entire drive. > > I've been wrestling with this problem for awhile now. I've stepped through > the procedure as laid-out in the FreeBSD FAQ > (http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ37.html#37), and when I go to install the new > filesystem on the drive (newfs /dev/rsd1s1) it craps out on me, complaining > about "newfs: /dev/rsd1s1: `1' partition is unavailable". > > Mind you, I've tried everything I know to get something on partition one, > short of blood sacrifice. And I'm a bit bummed that I haven't been able to > find a fixed version of "sysinstall" on the FreeBSD Web site (but maybe I'm > stupid?) Anyway, any pointers you could send my way would be swell. > > Thanks. > > don > > > =-=-= > Don Coffin dcoffin@intermind.com > Operations Specialist/Unix Head dcoffin@muppetlabs.com > Intermind, Inc. http://www.intermind.com >