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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!osuunx.ucc.okstate.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!malgudi.oar.net!news.ysu.edu!usenet.mcs.kent.edu!bsa3.kent.edu!GSPIEGEL From: GSPIEGEL@bsa3.kent.edu (Greg Spiegelberg) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: [NetBSD] Problem with disklabel'ing a 2nd drive Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 16:19:00 GMT Organization: Kent State University, School of Business Administration Lines: 36 Distribution: world Message-ID: <GSPIEGEL.81.741370739@bsa3.kent.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsabootp2.kent.edu Summary: problems Keywords: disklabel I've been trying to get a second drive going on our machine here and disklabel is giving me the worst time. 1) I let diskpart give me it's version of how it thinks the drive should be partitioned and then add it to the /etc/disktab, so there shouldn't be any problems there. 2) I cd /dev and do the 'disklabel -w wd1 maxtor7245'. What I get back is this... disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: No disk label on disk; use 'disklabel -r' to install initial label This makes no sense. The -r option only reads the drive info. Secondly, I have no idea what the error message means so I'm not sure what it wants. 3) If I try to proceed from there doing the 'newfs rwd1a', the 1st time it is done to a partition it gives me... newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): No such process newfs: /dev/rwd1a: can't rewrite disk label If I do it a second time it works just fine and I'm able to mount the partition. (I know I should add it to the /etc/fstab file & reboot, but I'm afraid it won't come back up.) Anyone have any ideas what's going on here? -Greg ----- gspiegel@bsa3.kent.edu gspiegel@mcs.kent.edu greg@dell.kent.edu