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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.new-york.net!tzlink.j51.com!lepslog From: lepslog@j51.com (Louis Epstein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to add a new SCSI drive? Date: 22 Dec 1995 20:09:58 GMT Organization: TZ-Link, a public-access online community in Nyack, NY. Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4bf3am$jd@tzlink.j51.com> References: <4b8cik$40j@newsnewsnews> <4ba4fq$bls@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: j51.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : pete@inquo.net (Pete Kruckenberg) writes: : > So far, I've low-level formatted the drive, and tried to do a disklabel : > -e /dev/sd2 on it (I'd already done /dev/MAKEDEV sd2s1a). After editting : > the file as best I can, it tells me: : > : > disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Operation not supported by device : > : > What am I doing wrong here? : You should : n e v e r : use the block device unless you're going to mount a file system. Hmmm...but would you add a disk without making any partitions? (I've got a couple of computers with "unseen" disks right now, I want to make the OS see them all...in one case they will all be used for news,in the other it will be mainly customer home directories). : disklabel -r -B -w sd2 <disktype from disktab> : is the magic sequence. (It will actually use /dev/rsd2 then, but : that's not very important. I think it used to pick /dev/rsd2d in : previous systems.) (Pete asked about 2.0.5...I am running 2.1)