Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 08:41:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: Robert Chalmers <robert@chalmers.com.au>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Add New Disk (Help!) Message-ID: <XFMail.980623084107.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <358EF6BF.CDAB3101@chalmers.com.au>
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On 23-Jun-98 Robert Chalmers wrote: > Here's what I did: > > Instal the HDD: > reboot and watch for the disk information that comes up on the > console. It will > etll you how big the disk actually is - as it detects it. > Like this, in my case: Its the information in the brackets that you > >From my dmesg: wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): <Maxtor 83240D4> wd2: 3089MB (6327720 sectors), 6696 cyls, 15 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > > Ok, see tha last one, 4110000 512 byte blocks. Thats how big your > disk actually > is. > > now do this; where foo is your disk name. On mine I used sd1 ( foo = > sd1 ) > ># dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo count=2 ># disklabel -rwB foo auto ># disklabel -e foo Tried this: gateway# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd2 count=2 2+0 records in 2+0 records out 1024 bytes transferred in 0.008793 secs (116456 bytes/sec) gateway# disklabel -rwB wd2 auto disklabel: ioctl DIOCSDINFO: No space left on device Is this drive dead? Patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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