Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1998 16:44:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: starting up the 3rd SCSI disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808141632560.363-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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I had problems previously with errors on my new scsi disk, but I finally got past that, in taking a suggestion a couple people made, to use dd to shoot zeroes all over the new disk. wiped the errors fine. When I did that, I realized I had one last funny thing going on, because I'd done something strange during disklabeling, and it kept telling me that the primary partition table was bad (NO MAGIC). I realized I hadn't even partitioned it at all, because (as I'd done before) I had no intention whatsoever of ever running DOS/Windows on it, so I'd done no partitioning. Maybe it was complaining. I reformatted the 4.3G SCSI disk, and then used the FreeBSD fdisk program to stick a partition table in it. I took the defaults for all, which set partition 4 as the whole disk, and set it to use FreeBSD. OK. When I did that, it refused to disklabel, telling me there was no space. If I don't do that, it does the disklabel, but always complains that the partition table is bad (NO MAGIC). Given a choice, I'd have no partition table, but I can't see what I'm doing wrong. I'd thought that the correct procedure was: 1) scsiformat the disk 2) disklabel the disk, using the auto setup. 3) go back, disklabel using -e -r, so I could manually edit in the b (swap) and e partitions. 4) newfs the e partition 5) stick both partitions in /etc/fstab 6) begin file operations. What did I miss, or what did I mess up, any guesses? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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