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Date:      Sun, 16 Aug 1998 22:16:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: starting up the 3rd SCSI disk
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808162214430.21985-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808141801430.363-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Chuck Robey wrote:

> OK, I didn't do the dd step before, that's made a change.  I got it
> disklabeled (dang. ded. mode), and did the newfs, but at the end I got:
> 
> newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid argument
> newfs: /dev/rsd2e: can't rewrite disk label

> 
> Well, I've saved the output of the newfs and disklabel here so you can
> chop them off in the reply:
> 
> ROOT:/usr2/chuckr:102 >disklabel sd2
> # /dev/rsd2c:
> type: SCSI
> disk: amnesiac
> label: fictitious

Erm, try

disklabel -r sd2

to get the on-disk disklabel, not the in-core one...

> newfs: ioctl (WDINFO): Invalid argument
> newfs: /dev/rsd2e: can't rewrite disk label

This disk is 'dangerously dedicated', right?

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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