From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 12 17:48:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA21993 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:48:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA21986 for ; Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:48:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA08530; Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:48:02 GMT Date: Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:48:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Alec Kloss cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble newfs'ing In-Reply-To: <199709122247.RAA00510@d2si.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82