Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 17:10:09 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: Rod Person <roddierod@yahoo.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems creating a filesystem on a new SCSI drive. Message-ID: <20011211171009.E232@gohan.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <20011210230713.08e9608c.roddierod@yahoo.com>; from roddierod@yahoo.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:07:13PM -0500 References: <20011210230713.08e9608c.roddierod@yahoo.com>
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:07:13PM -0500, Rod Person wrote: > I have just install a new SCSI drive, it is drive da1. > > I read the handbook and tried to format it in 'Dedicate' mode and 'non-dedicate'. Either way when I reach the point of issuing the following command: > newfs -d0 /dev/rda1e > I get the error that 'e' partition is unavailble. I have tried this a few times and I even did a low level format. > > Here may complete attempt. > > dd if=/dev/zero of /dev/rda1 bs=1k count=1 > disklabel -Brw da1 auto Why are you making it bootable? > disklable -e da1 # I didn't edit just :q out of vi Was there a 'e' partition at this point? > newfs -d0 /dev/rda1e What does 'disklabel' say? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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