From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri May 12 9:46:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.118.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB7DC37BDFA for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 09:46:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mlduke@concentric.net) Received: from cliff.concentric.net (cliff.concentric.net [206.173.118.90]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.9.1a/(98/12/15 5.12)) id MAA19445; Fri, 12 May 2000 12:46:19 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from ts003d27.mer-id.concentric.net (ts003d27.mer-id.concentric.net [206.173.184.135]) by cliff.concentric.net (8.9.1a) id MAA29143; Fri, 12 May 2000 12:46:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 08:43:49 -0600 (MDT) From: mlduke To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: /dev Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm running 3.2 and the IBM Ultrawide Direct Acess SCSI HD has come up with bad blocks on the first sector which renders getting through the PC boot sequence rather iffy, to say the least--so far luck is holding. IBM will ship a new drive when they receive this one, so I've installed 3.2 on a Western Digital IDE drive and now the aim is to get the /usr/home files from SCSI to IDE--critical stuff is backed up but it would be nice to have it all. On the respective drives I've executed, as root and in the /dev directory: ./MAKEDEV wd* and da* respectively after reading the /dev/MAKEDEV file, and both return: bad unit for disk in wd0a through wd0h and da0a through da0h respectively. I've tried mounting all the possibilities and get: unknown sppecial file or file system Any clues out there? In the process of reading through The Complete FreeBSD for help, nothing yet. ML Duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message