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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Adding a SCSI disk to an IDE system?
Date: 8 Jul 1996 18:16:34 +0100
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James Hu (jxh@plethora.cs.wustl.edu) wrote:
: Hello.  I am running 2.0.5 on a system with two IDE drives.  The
: master is DOS, the slave is FreeBSD.  I recently added a SCSI card
: (Adaptec AVA-2825VL) and a 1 Gig SCSI drive (Seagate ST51080N).  Using
: the Adaptec utility, I partitioned the drive into a 200Meg (25
: cylinders) DOS logical drive, and the remainder unspecified.  I would
: like to be able to mount the remainder, newfs it and make it my new
: /usr partition.  How do I begin?  The disk seems to be recognized at
: boot as sd0, and the device driver that sees it is aic (irq 11, port
: 0x340). 

: Yell if I need to be more specific.

You need to use fdisk to create your partition, and disklabel to label
the created partition.  I could give you details, but it involves
figuring out lots of numbers.  Most people seem to agree that life is
much better if you start an install, fdisk & disklabel from there, then
reboot (as normal) and newfs your sd0? partition.

--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....