From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 12 02:20:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA01478 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:20:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA01435 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:20:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA11138; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:20:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:20:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Dan Swartzendruber cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: can't access new disks? In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980711225044.00939240@mail.kersur.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > >> >Does da16 have an fdisk table? > >> > >> Doubt it. Brand new disk (literally). In any event, I can't even copy > >> from the drive (or to it), using slice 'c'. > > > >You can't access slices if you don't have an fdisk table to define the > >slices wih. Try /dev/rda16c. > > I'm confused. I have no such devices. Nor will MAKEDEV create anything > that looks like that (e.g. a diskname ending with 'c'). Wierd. You can't use the slice notation until you have slices, and if you don't have a partition table y ou don't have slices. Try MAKEDEV da16 and see what you get. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message