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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to format an optical diskette for use with FreeBSD? Date: 23 Dec 1996 21:14:39 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 22 Message-ID: <59msnv$790@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32B0566C.167EB0E7@boylove.ru> 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 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33050 Alexei Khalimov <lesha@boylove.ru> wrote: > I've got Fujitsu SCSI MO drive (230Mb), BSD detects it as /dev/od0 > What to do to format it with ufs. "disklabel -e" returns > " ioctl Operation not suppoorted by device" while trying > to make changes to description. You need to label it first. For FreeBSD 2.1.5 or higher, you can run disklabel -Brw od0 auto to generate the initial label (and continue with disklabel -e then). For earlier systems, refer to the FAQ, section 2.15. Please, use the most recent FAQ on www.freebsd.org -- this section has been updated. -- 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. ;-)