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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.ultranet.com!news.sprintlink.net!mips.infocom.com!daveho From: daveho@infocom.com (Dave Hovemeyer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to disklabel new SCSI drive? Date: 11 Jul 1995 17:01:27 GMT Organization: infocom, inc. Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3tuap7$smm@mips.infocom.com> References: <3trr3s$ef@mips.infocom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mandy.infocom.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Dave Hovemeyer (daveho@infocom.com) wrote: : I'm having lots of trouble trying to disklabel a new SCSI drive. : I have made an entry in /etc/disktab, but when I try to label the : drive the following happens: : mips# disklabel -w /dev/sd1 sea32550N : disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Operation not supported by device Oops; this works find when the raw device is used. I should have read the man page more carefully. Everything is working fine now. Dave