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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!uunet.ca!news.uunet.ca!wire!vances From: vances@xenitec.xenitec.on.ca (Vance Shipley) Subject: Does a second SCSI disk have to be sliced? Organization: XeniTec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON, Canada Distribution: Distribution: Date: Mon, 18 Sep 1995 22:07:02 GMT Message-ID: <DF4G3r.J6q@wire.xenitec.on.ca> Summary: Can I 'disklabel -w sd1c'? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: xenitec.xenitec.on.ca Sender: news@wire.xenitec.on.ca (The dreaded news admin account) Lines: 23 I'm having a hell of a time getting sd1 & sd2 installed on a v2.0.5 box. They're Seagate Hawk ST15230N 4.3GB drives. I'm using an Adaptec 2940 PCI SCSI controller. From what I can see what I'd like to do is skip the fdisk step and just disklabel the whole drive. The manual pages suggest this is still supported, is it? I have tried any number of combinations of fdisk'ing and disklabeling (including having a DOS partition at the start of the drive) but I keep ending up with the same error eventually which is a write error complaining about bad magic on the partition table. I get the impression that I cannot really initialize the partition information initially with disklabel (even though the manual pages suggest I can) but instead need to have something there to begin with. Is this true? Any help would be greatly appreciated. -Vance -- Vance Shipley, vances@xenitec.on.ca