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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!news.mindspring.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI help Date: 27 Oct 1996 20:22:50 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 45 Message-ID: <550gaq$eus@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <1996Oct26.150550.3068@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E pinc_cif@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Joshua Pincus) wrote: (Apart from `tedm's advises about /stand/sysinstall:) > 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". Huh? Did you have any need to run scsiformat? This is nothing you are supposed to _need_ to run first. > Should I be using disklabel or fdisk? Should I add the geometry info disklabel is mandatory, fdisk is optional. > to the /etc/disktab database first? Is there a master list for Either this (classic way, required if you have been using fdisk to have a disk shared with other operating systems -- of course, unless you've been using /stand/sysinstall, which is more user-friendly). Or, for FreeBSD 2.1.5 and above, run `disklabel -Brw sd1 auto'. You can always edit the partitioning information then with disklabel -e sd1 > /etc/disktab? The list of devices in that list is rather small. The problem with disktab is that it contains both, device _and_ partitioning information. It's absolutely impractical these days to maintain this list except of a few entries for devices with a ``well-known geometry'' like floppies or MO media. > /* > -- DER UBERMENSCH!! > */ You? :-) -- 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. ;-)