Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:42:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: petermatulis@yahoo.ca (Peter) Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: seeking help on "adding a disk" Message-ID: <200604162042.k3GKgBp7010228@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060416152213.20053.qmail@web60014.mail.yahoo.com>
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> > > > > > > > > This is all I have: > > > > > > $ ls -lh /dev/r* > > > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 10 Apr 9 15:55 /dev/random > > > > > > No raw devices. > > > > Yes. devices don't just show up and stay there any more. They > > are managed by devfs. I haven't studied that to see just how > > it works yet, so I don't know at which point it should start showing > > up in /dev if ever. > > > > I just figured trying a newfs with the /dev/r... might be something > > to try out to see what happened - sort of an experiment and if that > > doesn't do it, then maybe the thing to pursue is your concern about > > the cables. > > > > If that doesn't work, I think this has gone beyond any problems I > > have > > ever had so I don't know what else to suggest. Hopefully someone > > else > > will have some thing to say. > > > > ////jerry > > > I changed to a UDMA 133 cable (80-wire) and that solved the problem; > the newfs command succeeded! So, you were right in the first place. Well, that is often the way it is. Enjoy, ////jerry > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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