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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
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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.