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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Conner 4gig 7200rpm drive (Thanks) Date: 23 Jan 1996 23:54:01 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 27 Message-ID: <4e3sep$6th@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <DLKzqE.5F5@ritz.mordor.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) writes: > Thanks to J"org and to all the other folks that helped out. > I finally got the disk working properly. The trick seems to > be finding the total number of sectors on the disk and adding > that number to your disktab entry for the disk (su#). At > that point, you should be able to fdisk and disklabel this > disk. Then you use /dev/MAKEDEV to create the entries for > your new partitions, newfs the partitions, and mount them. Btw., with FreeBSD-current, try disklabel -r -w sdX auto disklabel -e sdX > Overall, I suppose it was a learning experience <grin>, but > it sure would be nice to have a painless utility like BSDI's > disksetup program to do the dirty work. Maybe some day I'll > learn enough C to do that. :-) Do it. :-) Pick /usr/src/release/libdisk as a starting point... -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)