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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
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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