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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!swing.iinet.net.au!news.uoregon.edu!chi-news.cic.net!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-ulm.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!lrz-muenchen.de!faui0n.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: help on labeling non-labeled new scsi disk Date: 29 Oct 1995 18:30:48 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 40 Message-ID: <470do8$1jm@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <461btt$34q@overload.lbl.gov> <463hk0$pde@overload.lbl.gov> <46akio$ge6@uriah.heep.sax.de> <46me71$lvv@overload.lbl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Jin Guojun[ITG] <jin@gracie.lbl.gov> wrote: >>Both are valid, "sh MAKEDEV args..." is also ok. > >It depends on what args they are. >You remember the first part, but forgot the last part. >The original syntax was: > > sh MAKEDEV sd2h > >Would you beleive that could work? or be an error? Ok, this is in error. > I only need to use the raw disks, >however, the FreeBSD won't do the configuration on unlabled SCSI devices. >Before, It just complains that "no magic", but after 2.1-SNAP, I didn't >see the complaining. Instead, the devices are not configged. Hmm, you can't read an unlabelled /dev/rsd1? Strange, i always could, though i think with ``no magic'' warnings. Well, creating a disklabel containing just the `c' partition might help, but remember: you cannot use a partition at offset 0, since this would trash the disklabel. (Creating a file system on such a partition is okay, since the file system layer doesn't touch the disklabel. Using it as a raw partition is not ok.) >>Btw., the installer doesn't use disklabel(8) itself; it uses libdisk >>which can be found in the src/release/libdisk directory. > >That is a library, but not a utility tool. Of course, but somebody has been asking why things work in the installer but don't work with the separate tools. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)