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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!pegasus2.astro.indiana.edu!sdslavin From: sdslavin@pegasus2.astro.indiana.edu (Shawn Slavin) Subject: Formatting a second HD under FreeBSD Message-ID: <CLG88D.B3H@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: pegasus2.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University Date: Sat, 19 Feb 1994 02:00:13 GMT Lines: 33 Hi. I set up my FreeBSD-1.0 system a while ago, and, for the most part, things work very well. However, I have a problem with my second HD. Apparently, I have set it up incorrectly. It works fine sometimes, but there seems to be a limit on the amount of data I can put on it. Let me describe this more specifically. I have almost none of it used, it being my "user" disk. When I tried writing to it tonight, it started making a terrible buzzing noise, and I had to reboot. I thought I'd try copying a bunch of stuff into a subdirectory. So, I copied all of /usr/local/bin (on my other disk) into a subdirectory on the disk in question, with no problems. Then, I cd into the subdir and cp emacs ../, and the buzzing starts again. It seems as though I have formatted the disk incorrectly. Now, I haven't had any problems with the first disk, which was set up by the floppy installation. The first disk is a WDC AC2340 (340 MB West. Dig. Caviar IDE). My second disk is a WDC AC2170 (170 MB ...). To format the disk, I ran it through fdisk, disklabel and newfs. I have it setup as a c: partition, using the whole disk. Before I continue to ramble through all the stuff I've done, maybe some kind soul out there has a WDC AC2170, which works well for him/her. If you don't mind, would you mail me a copy of your fdisk, disklabel and disktab output. I could compare it with what I have, and maybe fix the problem. Thanks for reading this long message. Also, thanks in advance for any and all help. Shawn -- Shawn Slavin Indiana University Astronomy Internet: sdslavin@pegasus2.astro.indiana.edu