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Date:      Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:48:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        Alec Kloss <alec@d2si.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Trouble newfs'ing
Message-ID:  <Pine.UW2.3.95.970912174548.8296C-100000@cedb>
In-Reply-To: <199709122247.RAA00510@d2si.com>

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On Fri, 12 Sep 1997, Alec Kloss wrote:
> Twice in a row I tried to newfs a partition on a Quantum SCSI drive
> identified by the kernel as
[...]
>         newfs /dev/sd0s1d

Use the raw device, /dev/rsd0s1d

newfs should probably give an error message instead of hanging
when handed the block device, but if you use the raw device
everything will work just fine.

Dan
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