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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Okay, I give up.
Date: 4 Apr 1996 21:41:45 GMT
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Michael Curry <mcgraw@cais.cais.com> writes:

> Anyway, yesterday it was deduced that the second drive might have to be 
> addressed as /dev/rwd1 instead of /dev/wd1, as far as writing a disklabel 
> is concerned.

Simply use `wd1' instead of all the /dev/foowd23bar notion, and let
disklabel(8) decide which device node(s) to use.

-- 
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. ;-)