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#! rnews 1800 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!olivea!decwrl!spool.mu.edu!agate!tfs.com!mailhub.tfs.com!julian From: julian@mailhub.tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: SCSI Problem: uhhh.. Date: 17 Nov 1995 02:57:30 GMT Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Oakland, CA Lines: 36 Message-ID: <48gtmq$gf9@times.tfs.com> References: <48fb32$4vj@news.service.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhub.tfs.com In article <48fb32$4vj@news.service.uci.edu>, Sam Sapoznick <ssapozni@mercury.sfsu.edu> wrote: | | read your reply, but despite what you say about it just being a silly error |that doesn't mean anything, it <really> doesn't work.. | |I've read the man pages for fdisk, newfs, and disklabel, and none of those |commands will do anything to the disk, it seems. | |Newfs complains that /dev/sd0 is "not a character-special device" and "'0' |partition unavailable." use /dev/rsd0a do this AFTER a successfil disklabel | |Fdisk -u gives the message I mentioned before: ioctl DIOWLABEL op. not supportedby device. You can ignore that message.. it got done correctly | |Disklabel says bad pack magic number, etc. you need to start with a label being written (the -w option) after that you can use the -e option to 'fix' it.. start with a small label from /etc/disktab and make it bigger do this after a successful fdisk (which I think you already have as the message you see can be ignored) | |As I understand it, first I need to partition the disk, then label it, and |then make a filesystem on it. For whatever reasons, none of the commands are |working. The kernel <does> recognize the SCSI controller (BusLogic BT-545C) |and there are no irq conflicts, etc.