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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!newnews.mikom.csir.co.za!news.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news00.sunet.se!sunic!mn6.swip.net!seunet!news2.swip.net!nike.volvo.se!cyklop.volvo.se!peter From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Adding a second drive to a system Date: 21 Oct 1996 15:50:59 GMT Organization: Volvo Corp. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <54g653$oh7@nike.volvo.se> References: <01bbbeac$55b1f940$655be426@Home.lunartech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cyklop.volvo.se X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Did you create the /exmp directory on your filesystem first ? And did you avoid to use the very last part of the scsi disk (where bad blocks are stored) ? Usually using sd0c is bad, but sd0h is safe (disksetup reserves the last blocks from usage) Darryl A. Brown (Brown@Lunartech.com) wrote: : I'm new to BSD/OS, but a quick learner. I have installed BSDI 2.1 with out : much trouble, to an IDE drive in a test system. I have now tried to add a : SCSI disk/file system to be used by the OS. : The installation of the SCSI adapter went fine and the drive is seen as : sd0. I have run "disksetup -i sd0" to create the disk partition and : selected h as the whole disk and assigned a value of "/exmp" as the mount : point. I chose not to write boot blocks or a "/" root partition but did : save the changes to the label. : Next I did a "newfs /dev/sd0h" but when I tried to mount /exmp it tells me : there is no such file or directory. I know the I have missed a step but I : don't know where. I have looked through the man pages and cannot find what : I am doing wrong. : Can anyone out there guide me to the correct group if this is not the : correct one or recommend documentation that covers this, the manual is not : very descriptive. : Thanks in advance, : Darryl A. Brown -- -- Peter Hakanson VolvoData Dep 2580 phone +46 31 66 74 27