From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 24 18:45:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA11233 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:45:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA11227 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:45:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA14671; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 18:45:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "S(pork)" cc: Don Coffin , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation of 4gig SCSI HD under 2.1.5 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, S(pork) wrote: > 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? The easiest way (esp. with SCSI) is to not mess with them at all and use the 'auto' disktype. In response to the shiny automatic way to add disks, I saw an announcement some time ago for a perl script which automates this somewhat. I wish I had the reference, you might check the -current and possibly -announce archives for that one. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major