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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1770 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:57:23 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!think.com!sdd.hp.com!portal!mykes From: mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) Subject: Re: disklabel and 2 IDE drives Message-ID: <C2rHsw.M2v@unix.portal.com> Sender: news@unix.portal.com Nntp-Posting-Host: jobe Organization: Portal Communications Company X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <C2q5M6.95M@uceng.uc.edu> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1993 19:22:07 GMT Lines: 31 Christopher Lee (calee@uceng.uc.edu) wrote: : Hi, : First, Thanks for your help with uucp. I got it working last night. : Now I have applied the 0.2 patch kit for a multi disk drive system. When I : reboot the os, it sees both wd0 and wd1. However if I go to disklabel : drive 2, I get inconsistent results. I always get a report back that : drive 2 has no label, however other times (usually the majority of times) I : will also get a message saying I have an invalid argument /dev/rwd1? . : 1. Are there additional steps I am overlooking other than : do a disklabel then a newfs? : 2. Is there a bug in the version of disklabel that I am : overlooking? : I would like to get to the additional 80mg so that I can re-install Xwindows : to complete my system. disklabel writes the disklabel into RAM, not to the hard disk, unless you use the -r -w form: disklabel -r -w wd1a : Thanks for your help.. : Chris Lee : -- : Christopher Lee * Christopher.Lee@UC.EDU : U. of Cincinnati * calee@uceng.uc.edu : College of Engineering * 513-556-0131 (Voice)