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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to add a new SCSI drive? Date: 20 Dec 1995 22:59:06 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4ba4fq$bls@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4b8cik$40j@newsnewsnews> 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 pete@inquo.net (Pete Kruckenberg) writes: > So far, I've low-level formatted the drive, and tried to do a disklabel > -e /dev/sd2 on it (I'd already done /dev/MAKEDEV sd2s1a). After editting > the file as best I can, it tells me: > > disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Operation not supported by device > > What am I doing wrong here? You should n e v e r use the block device unless you're going to mount a file system. disklabel -r -B -w sd2 <disktype from disktab> is the magic sequence. (It will actually use /dev/rsd2 then, but that's not very important. I think it used to pick /dev/rsd2d in previous systems.) -- 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. ;-)