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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2244 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:50:49 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!nigel.msen.com!bkc From: bkc@msen.com (Brad Clements) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: 2 IDE Drives & Disklabel - How I did it Date: 25 Feb 1993 23:53:24 GMT Organization: Msen, Inc. -- Ann Arbor, Michigan Lines: 19 Message-ID: <1mjm62INN16t@nigel.msen.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.msen.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] For those folks having problems getting a second IDE drive to work, here's what I did to get my second Maxtor IDE working. As mentioned previously on this list, the disklabel command must be used to write the disklabel. However I too was getting 'invalid argument' when I ran the program. My second drive disklabel command went like this: disklabel -w -r rwd1d max203 In this example, max203 is something I've defined in /etc/disktab. Note that I used partition d, not c. Due to a bug in isa/wd.c, WRAW is defined as 3 (a = 0, so d is 3). When partition d is used, you can write to an unlabeled disk. This should be changed in the definative source to be 2, not 3. In the meantime, use partition d to write the label.