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From: greg@coombs.anu.edu.au (Greg Price)
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Subject: Re: disklabel and 2 IDE drives
Date: 21 Feb 93 03:25:40 GMT
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calee@uceng.uc.edu (Christopher Lee) writes:


>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 have 2 IDE drives and when I installed patch00072 it caused troubles
with respect to it finding the second drive. I have left that patch out
and all is fine. I have 2 IDE drives, DOS at the start of the first and
use OSBS. I can't remember what the exact problem was, but I think the
kernel found the second disk duing boot up, but when it actually went to
talk to it, ie fsck, mount, label, etc is didn't want to play ball.

Greg
(greg@coombs.anu.edu.au)

ps. your mileage may vary as I saw noone else with this problem!