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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!hood.cc.rochester.edu!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!pinc_cif From: pinc_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Joshua Pincus) Subject: SCSI help Message-ID: <1996Oct26.150550.3068@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Summary: need to format a scsi drive Sender: news@galileo.cc.rochester.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: uhura.cc.rochester.edu Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York Date: Sat, 26 Oct 96 15:05:50 GMT Lines: 23 I just got my hands on a SCSI drive and I would like to add it to my filesystem. I got an Adaptec 1542B, and the drive and the card talk to FreeBSD fine. What I am having trouble with is the actual partitioning and labeling. In good 'ol SunOS, this process could be completed with the format program. It was trivial to do. In FreeBSD, I am totally lost. Whenever I try to use disklabel after perfoming a scsiformat, the system tells me that the primary partition table on the drive has "no magic". Should I be using disklabel or fdisk? Should I add the geometry info to the /etc/disktab database first? Is there a master list for /etc/disktab? The list of devices in that list is rather small. I would really appreciate any help!! Thanks in advance, Josh Pincus, pinc_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu -- /* -- DER UBERMENSCH!! */