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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 1998 12:55:04 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com>
To:        Jim Van Baalen <vansax@mail.websidestory.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't Newfs Disk
Message-ID:  <13758.65215.76314.466555@neuron.webmore.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.96.980728154846.18204E-100000@mail.websidestory.com>
References:  <Pine.BSI.3.96.980728154846.18204E-100000@mail.websidestory.com>

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Jim Van Baalen writes:

2.2.6 does not use the compatibility-slices anymore.

 > newfs -N /dev/rsd1c

Try newfs -N /dev/rsd1s4c

Malte.

 > I have just added a second disk to a machine and I can't newfs a
 > filesystem on this disk. I have been through this process several
 > times in the last week on different machines and have not had this
 > problem. The machine is running 2.2.6-RELEASE. It sees the second 
 > disk at boot time
 > 
 > Jul 28 13:49:07 host2 /kernel: sd1(ahc0:2:0): Direct-Access 4340MB (8888924 512 byte sectors)
 > 
 > It seems to accept a disklabel. I added 
 > 
 > st34572w|Seagate ST34572W SCSI: \
 >         :dt=SCSI:ty=winchester:se#512:nt#8:ns#176:nc#6300: \
 >         :pc#8870400:oc#0:
 > 
 > to /etc/disktab.
 > 
 > disklabel -r -w sd1 st34572w
 > 
 > returns no errors, but newfs fails.
 > 
 > newfs -N /dev/rsd1c
 > newfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Invalid argument
 > newfs: /dev/rsd1c: can't read disk label; disk type must be specified
 > 
 > An fdisk looks the same as on other systems to which I have added the
 > same model disk.
 > 
 > fdisk sd1
 > ******* Working on device /dev/rsd1 *******
 > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
 > cylinders=6300 heads=8 sectors/track=176 (1408 blks/cyl)
 > 
 > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
 > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
 > cylinders=6300 heads=8 sectors/track=176 (1408 blks/cyl)
 > 
 > fdisk: Invalid fdisk partition table found
 > Media sector size is 512
 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
 > Information from DOS bootblock is:
 > The data for partition 1 is:
 > sysid 108,(unknown)
 >     start 1819044972, size 1819044972 (888205 Meg), flag 6c
 >         beg: cyl 364/ sector 44/ head 108;
 >         end: cyl 364/ sector 44/ head 108
 > The data for partition 2 is:
 > sysid 108,(unknown)
 >     start 1819044972, size 1819044972 (888205 Meg), flag 6c
 >         beg: cyl 364/ sector 44/ head 108;
 >         end: cyl 364/ sector 44/ head 108
 > The data for partition 3 is:
 > sysid 108,(unknown)
 >     start 1819044972, size 1819044972 (888205 Meg), flag 6c
 >         beg: cyl 364/ sector 44/ head 108;
 >         end: cyl 364/ sector 44/ head 108
 > The data for partition 4 is:
 > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
 >     start 1, size 8870399 (4331 Meg), flag 80
 >         beg: cyl 0/ sector 2/ head 0;
 >         end: cyl 155/ sector 48/ head 7
 > 
 > Hints??
 > 
 > Jim
 > 
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