From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 10:36:21 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id KAA22727 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:36:21 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA22714 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:36:10 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA15364; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:32:18 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199510121732.KAA15364@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Disk utility woes To: olsenc@smokey.ee.washington.edu (Clint Olsen) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:32:17 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510120602.XAA19538@smokey.ee.washington.edu> from "Clint Olsen" at Oct 11, 95 11:02:42 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 908 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > I enjoy using FreeBSD, but when it comes to partitioning and labeling > (or whatever in the hell BSD calls it), it just plain sucks. I'm > really getting tired of struggling with these utilities when fdisk and > newfs used to work just fine for the majority of us. Now, I get to duke > it out with a crippled fdisk and this disklabel thing (which I have yet > to figure out). No, reading the manpage and the FAQ on the WEB did not > help. I agree, but that's not your problem. There is work being done on devfs and utilities to make this go away. Your problem seems to be that you are using a SCSI->ESDI converter on an old ESDI drive and it isn't acting like a real SCSI device should. It might be the LUN code; I seem to rememebr options in LINT for this. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.