From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Sep 24 06:03:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA27458 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 06:03:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.interlog.com (root@smtp.interlog.com [198.53.145.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA27453 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 06:03:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell1.interlog.com (paulg@shell1.interlog.com [207.34.202.8]) by smtp.interlog.com (8.8.3/8.7.6) with SMTP id JAA26230 for ; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:03:22 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 09:03:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Paul Griffith To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Adding another drive to a FreeBSD system Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I spend a good part of the night trying to add a SCSI 128MB removable optical drive to my system. Is the following steps correct: edit /etc/disktab run disklabel -w -r sd1 auto # assume 128 optical is /dev/sd1 newfs /dev/sd1 --- The fact that I am posting this means it didn't work, here is what I added to /etc/disktab (and why is this still used ????) sony128| Sony 128MB Optical| ty=removable:dt=SCSI:rm#3600:\ se#512:nt#64:ns#32:sc#2048:su#:2448826:\ pa#248826:oa#0:ba#4096:ta=4.2BSD:fa#0:\ pc#248826:oc#0 Its just a regular SCSI (if there is such a beast) 512 sector 128MB optical removable. Can I use scsiformat ?? Paul Griffith - paulg@interlog.com BTW: Is the section for adding a drive in the latest handbook still blank? I had to hunt this info down, by reading man pages, the O'rially (sp) System Admin hand book, and the FreeBSD Handbook, and it still didn't work. Maybe I just have to step to the table and work on it myself. I mean I you want to do Unix Admin, you just gotta know how to add more storage to your system :-)