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Date:      Sun, 5 May 1996 14:56:49 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        rg@gds.de (Richard Gresek)
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions)
Subject:   Re: disklabel
Message-ID:  <199605051256.OAA13092@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <199605041849.UAA01481@gds.de> from "Richard Gresek" at May 4, 96 04:45:53 pm

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Richard Gresek writes:
>
> I am trying to add a new disk but I do not succeed an 'disklabel'
> since two days. 

Join the club.  It's a real minefield.

> I have already searched all docs available there, but I still seem
> to miss something:

You're definitely missing the docs I'm writing on the subject.  If you
want, I'll send you a draft copy (in PostScript).

> I added the description of my drive (wdc) to /etc/disktab then enter
> 'disklabel -w -r /dev/wd2s1 wdc'. The system replies back 'wdc:
> unknown disk type'.

Could it be that you forgot to terminate the last line of
/etc/disktab?  That will give you exactly this response.

Greg




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