Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:59:41 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: paulg@interlog.com (Paul Griffith) Subject: Re: Adding another drive to a FreeBSD system Message-ID: <19970924215941.OU12423@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970924084921.5125B-100000@shell1.interlog.com>; from Paul Griffith on Sep 24, 1997 09:03:20 -0400 References: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970924084921.5125B-100000@shell1.interlog.com>
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As Paul Griffith wrote:
> 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
You don't use your edited disktab entry when using `auto'. You should
always add a -B flag, too, to prevent an over-eager blatant complaint
from the kernel about a not so magic disk...
> newfs /dev/sd1
disklabel -e sd1 # edit your partitions
newfs /dev/rsd1a
^
> 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 ????)
It isn't if you're using `auto' above.
> Its just a regular SCSI (if there is such a beast) 512 sector 128MB
> optical removable. Can I use scsiformat ??
You probably could, but it's a totally different beast: it really
requests the disk to _format_ the sectors. This is very low-level,
and probably not what you want. Don't get confused by some wannabe-
operating system that just smashes all the disk preparations into the
word `format'. What you really want is to `high-level format', i.e.
create your filesystems. That's what newfs is for.
> BTW: Is the section for adding a drive in the latest handbook still blank?
The FAQ contains more about it than the handbook.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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