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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Accessing a whole SCSI disk
Date: 21 Aug 1995 13:22:09 +0200
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Anton Hartl <hartl@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> wrote:
>I have the problem of accessing a SCSI disk as a whole without wanting
>to disklabel it; the disk has some sort of System V filesystem on it
>and I already have a tool to extract the files from a 'raw' disk.
>Now my question is how do I make the whole disk accessible to FreeBSD 2.0.5?
>Do I need to disklabel it in some way?
Nope. Simply access /dev/[r]sd0. Ignore a potential warning about
``invalid partition table: bad magic'' or such.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)