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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problem: cannot find disklabel after writing it.
Date: 11 Mar 1994 18:30:36 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <CMI5Dz.LBC@news.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>,
Dietmar Posselt <posselt@hermes.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> wrote:

>I booted FreeBSD, installed the hard-disk without any problem,
>except somtimes an wd0c: extra interrupt occurs.
>
>After the reboot FreeBSD can't found the disklabel.

This is due to bug in the wd driver in the FreeBSD 1.0 release.  A work-around
for 1.0 was to use an alternative wd driver which is now the default driver
in FreBSD 1.1.

Get the kc-altwd-disk and it should solve your disklabel problems.


Nate
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