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From: mark@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk (Mark Powell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI problems performing writes to FAST SCSI-2 drives
Date: 22 Feb 1996 14:58:10 -0000
Organization: Computer Services Unit, University College Salford, Salford, UK
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In article <4gfcoq$k4j@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>,
Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> wrote:
>Daring to challenge the will of the almighty Leviam00se, Mark Powell
>(mark@plato.ucsalf.ac.uk) had the courage to say:
>[stuff regarding individual partitions for file systems]
>
>Uhm, wait, hold on. I think there may be some misunderstanding here.
>
>You aren't supposed to use the _partition_ editor to allocate space for
>individual filesystems.

Ahh, I guessed this might be how it worked, from the presence of the 'entire
disk' option, but I didn't realise the partition could be split in the 
labeller. I've upgraded this machine from Dell SVR4 which used same scheme,
but this wasn't clear with FreeBSD. Well that's what I get for never reading
the docs. 
However, I don't think I should of had the trouble I did? I think SCSI errors
when partitioning a disk is a bug.
TIA
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