Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 12:14:55 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: nm <nm@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more disk trouble Message-ID: <200005011914.MAA02961@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 2000 14:53:22 EDT." <3.0.32.20000501145321.038ce7d0@mail.vt.edu>
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> So I just dropped in a new 18GB uw scsi disk. > Here is what comes up in the boot messages: > > da1 at ahc0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 > da1: <COMPAQ MAA3182SP 0814> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da1: 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing > Enabled > da1: 17366MB (35566000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2213C) > > But when I try to disklabel it, this is what I get :( > > bash-2.03# disklabel /dev/rda1c > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument > > If I type disklabel /dev/rda1 I can view it but not > save any changes. > > What am I doing wrong? You don't apply disklabel to a partition, you apply it to a device or slice. Use the canonical name to avoid embarrassment, eg: disklabel -e da1 In your case, there is already a label on the disk, and disklabel is very protective of existing labels (for good reason). You need to cheat and zero it out first: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 count=16 -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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