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From: Captain Jack <jack@rabbit.eng.miami.edu>
To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: ls-120
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> Do you get anything out of that?  It should go through a short procedure
> to lay out the superblocks.

rabbit# newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/wfd0s1
newfs: /dev/wfd0s1: not a character-special device
newfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Invalid argument
newfs: /dev/wfd0s1: can't read disk label; disk type must be specified

rabbit# newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/wfd0s1e
newfs: /dev/wfd0s1e: No such file or directory

rabbit# newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/wfd0
newfs: /dev/wfd0: not a character-special device
newfs: /dev/wfd0: `0' partition is unavailable

> > I did and ls /dev/wf* and the only two entries are wfd0 and wfd0s1.  What
> > am I doing wrong?  What should the exact steps be?
> 
> Hm.  Do 'fdisk wfd0' and post the output.

rabbit# fdisk wfd0
******* Working on device /dev/rwfd0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=963 heads=8 sectors/track=32 (256 blks/cyl)

parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=963 heads=8 sectors/track=32 (256 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>



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