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#! rnews 2070 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!garnet.bmr.gov.au!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.cps.udayton.edu!news.engr.udayton.edu!blackbird.afit.af.mil!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.exodus.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!news.bc.net!news.lynx.bc.ca!usenet From: Tom Lee <tom@lynx.bc.ca> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Help: Adding Newsfeed to a Second SCSI Device Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 23:25:14 -0800 Organization: Delta Force Enterprises Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3158ED5A.4CFC@lynx.bc.ca> References: <4j25ij$6nk@IRIS.igc.net> <4j6kdu$2u3@jade.emeraldis.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lynx1132.lynx.bc.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) To: "David G. Cannon" <david@emeraldis.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2835 comp.unix.questions:79421 David G. Cannon wrote: > > In article <4j25ij$6nk@IRIS.igc.net>, Mike <mike@cardnet.net> wrote: > > I have successfully installed a second SCSI drive for receiving newsfeeds. > > > > On the first SCSI device has all the file structures and newsfeed program > > INN info when I first installed the BSDI software. > > > > How do I go about getting newsfeed data to transfer over on the second > > SCSI device receive the newsfeed data which has more available disk space. > > > > Thanks > > > > //.ike > > Just mount the /var/news directory onto your new drive by using the mount > command. Also, make sure that you used newfs with a special size of 512 which > is appropriate for newsgroup files. You can read about this in your BSDI > manual. > > *David*I have difficulties on newfs a 9GB Seagate SCSI using special size (512) as recommended in the BSDI menu. I am using BSDI 2.0.1 . The HD only works when I just do a newfs /dev/sd0a. Any ideas, Tom