Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 08:57:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@eugene.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding second drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970930085557.22901B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <v03007808b054e98ccc57@[206.100.174.69]>
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On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Michelle Brownsworth wrote: > I added a second drive, an IDE to be used for backups, using disklabel -r > -w wd0 auto, newfs /dev/rwd0c, and mount /dev/wd0. The system issues the > following complaint: > > wd0: invalid primary partition table: no magic > wd0: invalid primary partition table: no magic > > I'm sure this is a common refrain for you guys. After coming up empty with > the Handbook and FAQ, I searched the mailing list archives on this problem > and got plenty of hits, messages posted by people having exactly the same > problem as I am, but there were absolutely no messages with an answer. > Zip. Nada. I'm forced to impose the question on you guys, so you can > answer it for the eleventeenth time. You must have missed the tutorials; my disk formatting docs are in there. :) > Oddly enough, I did the same disklabel, newfs, mount as above on a drive > added to another server the other day and it was fine; no "invalid primary > partition table: no magic" message. Go figure. That message is normal when creating disks; there's no primary partition table to read. I think this message has actually been disabled in -current because of the confusion it causes. You should be able to mount /dev/wd0c now. 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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