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From: aimee abbott <aimee@wavefront.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New hard disk
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 20:07:19 -0600
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abbott at MPCA wrote:

> Hello everyone!
> 
> It seems like this is an age old question.  I have been looking on the
> net and I can't seem to find any where that posts a step by step
> instruction of how to add a second hard drive to my bsd system.  If
> anyone knows of a web page that has such information could you please
> send me the URL.  I have been through most of www.FreeBSD.org with still
> questions unanswered.  -- Advance thanks.

OK, here is some updated information.  What I am doing is adding a
second hard drive to an exsiting system.  I have tried to step by step
follow
http://www.FreeBSD.org/FAQ/FAQ39.html#39
I can seem to fdisk from sysinstall just fine.  Then I try to do the
label editor
Disk: wd1       Partition name: wd1s1   Free: 0 blocks (0MB)
Part    Mount            Size Newfs   Part    Mount            Size
Newfs
----    -----            ---- -----   ----    -----            ----
-----
wd1s1e  /pca           1024MB UFS Y
wd1s1b  <none>           64MB SWAP
wd1s1f  /scr            927MB UFS Y


 and I am trying to use the whole 2gig drive and I create a 1024M and I
say to mount it at /pca, then I create a 64M and I make that swap, then
I create 927M and mount it /src.  When I try to write I get an error, 
Unable to add /dev/wd1s1b as a swap device: device not configured
I say OK to that and then I get  
Error mounting /mnt/dev/wd1s1e on /mnt/pca : No such file or directory
When I say OK to that one I get
Error mounting /mnt/dev/wd1s1f on /mnt/scr :No such file or directory

If I give up on life being easy and I try to do a manual disk label, I
get the following.

# disklabel -r /dev/rwd1s1
# /dev/rwd1s1:
type: ESDI
disk: wd1s1
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 256
sectors/unit: 4127760
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  c:  4127760        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
256*)
# 

This does not look right to me.  No e: or f: and no swap.  

Any advice would be appreciated here.  

--ja

John Abbott
jabbott@wolf.co.net