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Date:      Tue, 25 Feb 1997 10:12:56 -0500
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Help with IDE drive...
Message-ID:  <3.0.1.32.19970225101256.00af2400@sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970224224118.4530G-100000@localhost>
References:  <3.0.1.32.19970222094620.009ba2e0@sentex.net>

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At 10:41 PM 2/24/97 -0800, Doug White wrote:
>On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>
>> At 11:29 PM 2/21/97 -0800, Doug White wrote:
>> >On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have decided to kill my Win95 partition and take it over with FreeBSD.
>> >> The problem is, is that I am having no end of troubles trying to
disklabel
>> >> it...
>> >
>> >You need to disklabel -w this at some point.
>> 
>> Sorry, I forgot to include that I have tried that :-(  Also, this is a
>> second SLICE, not a second drive :-(
>> 
>> disklabel -w wd0s3 auto
>> disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument
>
>I will say right now that I am completely lost :) I really need to blow up
>some disks over summer and learn how to do this properly.


I have installed several SCSI disks at work on a couple of systems, and I
swear each time I had to do something different... This is probably the
only part of FreeBSD that I find frustrating :-( 


	---Mike
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