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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!KremlSun!newshost.elvis.ru!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uni-regensburg.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How do you add a BIG SCSI disks? Date: 10 Dec 1995 19:28:27 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <4afccr$8qs@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4aeqr1$a5m@hkucs92.air.org> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 cklo@hkucs92.air.org (Chris Lo) writes: > I'm still running 2.0.5 and I've found newfs refuses to make new filesystem > for me. > > The SCSI disks is 8GB large (a RAID device) and I've run fdisk, partitioned > into 2GB size partitions (even have done that under DOS too, so I can > skip fdisk under FreeBSD). You don't exactly need this step. For FreeBSD 2.0.5 or later, it's fine to use file systems > 2 GB as well. > disklabel -e gives warning about 0 rpm and 0 interleave etc... That's almost been the right path to go: enter useful values for rpm and interleave (e.g. 3600 and 1), since sysinstall left the disklabel with bogus values. After this, your label will be accepted. -- 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. ;-)