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From: eilts@iwte01.dialin.rrze.uni-erlangen.de (Hinrich Eilts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How do I set-up my second IDE drive?
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 02:33:39 GMT
Organization: NEL-Net
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dglenn@sgi12.csusb.edu (David Glenn) writes:

>I know this must be a repetitive question, but I was wondering 
>if there was a way to add a second IDE drive when the named
>drive has refence in the disktab? Is there a way or a command 
>that I can invoke that calculates and writes a disktab like
>it does for the primary dive?  In case anyone is instrsted I have 
>a samsung elect. 120 IDE on my would-be D: dirve. Ive tryed 
>to get diskpart to work but It doen't seem to produce the right 
>configuration.. 

One way is to creat any disklabel e.g. by
disklabel -w -r wd1 fuji513
and after this to edit it by
disklabel -e -r wd1
In this way you can avoid writing a cryptic disktab-entry.
Bye
	Hinrich
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