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From: hartl@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Anton Hartl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Accessing a whole SCSI disk
Date: 18 Aug 1995 22:58:44 GMT
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany	
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I have the problem of accessing a SCSI disk as a whole without wanting
to disklabel it;  the disk has some sort of System V filesystem on it
and I already have a tool to extract the files from a 'raw' disk.
Now my question is how do I make the whole disk accessible to FreeBSD 2.0.5?
Do I need to disklabel it in some way?  Preferable without destroying ANY
data on the disk, that is creating just an in-core disklabel if that's 
possible or necessary.  Or is /dev/sdX[cd] supposed to work without a
disklabel?

Any hints welcome,
	-Toni