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From: peter@cyklop.volvo.se (peter hakanson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Adding a second drive to a system
Date: 21 Oct 1996 15:50:59 GMT
Organization: Volvo Corp.
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Did you create the /exmp directory on your filesystem first ?

And did you avoid to use the very last part of the scsi disk 
(where bad blocks are stored) ?

Usually using sd0c is bad, but sd0h is safe (disksetup reserves
the last blocks from usage)

Darryl A. Brown (Brown@Lunartech.com) wrote:
: I'm new to BSD/OS, but a quick learner.  I have installed BSDI 2.1 with out
: much trouble, to an IDE drive in a test system.  I have now tried to add a
: SCSI disk/file system to be used by the OS.

: The installation of the SCSI adapter went fine and the drive is seen as
: sd0.  I have run "disksetup -i sd0"  to create the disk partition and
: selected h as the whole disk and assigned a value of "/exmp" as the mount
: point.  I chose not to write boot blocks or a "/" root partition but did
: save the changes to the label.

: Next I did a "newfs /dev/sd0h" but when I tried to mount /exmp it tells me
: there is no such file or directory.  I know the I have missed a step but I
: don't know where.  I have looked through the man pages and cannot find what
: I am doing wrong.

: Can anyone out there guide me to the correct group if this is not the
: correct one or recommend documentation that covers this, the manual is not
: very descriptive.

: Thanks in advance,

: Darryl A. Brown

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Peter Hakanson  VolvoData Dep 2580 phone +46 31 66 74 27