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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc Wandschneider)
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Subject: Re: disklabel and 2 IDE drives
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Date: 24 Feb 93 17:04:34 GMT
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In article <greg.730265140@coombs> greg@coombs.anu.edu.au (Greg Price) writes:
>I have 2 IDE drives and when I installed patch00072 it caused troubles
>with respect to it finding the second drive. I have left that patch out
>and all is fine. I have 2 IDE drives, DOS at the start of the first and
>use OSBS. I can't remember what the exact problem was, but I think the
>kernel found the second disk duing boot up, but when it actually went to
>talk to it, ie fsck, mount, label, etc is didn't want to play ball.
While we're on this topic, could somebody tell me how exactly
one goes about labelling the second disk...? I have a 170MB Quantum SCSI
disk, and tried to guess at the disktab entries for disklabel, but they
didn't work when I tried to newfs the thing.
How do I get the second disk up and running...?
Toodlepip!
Marc 'em
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