Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 20:33:12 -0500 (EST) From: Captain Jack <jack@rabbit.eng.miami.edu> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ls-120 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811122028320.4858-100000@rabbit.eng.miami.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811121553240.24229-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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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> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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