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Date:      Sat, 11 Jul 1998 19:41:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz@druber.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: can't access new disks?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980711194055.3277F-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980708073736.0094da40@mail.kersur.net>

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On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:

> >> * The boot-time probe is finding the new drives, yet when I try to do
> >> * anything with them (such as labeling them), I get this:
> >> 
> >> # disklabel -r -w da16s1c auto
> >> disklabel: /dev/rda16s1c: Device not configured
> >> 
> >> * Any ideas?
> >
> >Does da16 have an fdisk table?
> 
> Doubt it.  Brand new disk (literally).  In any event, I can't even copy
> from the drive (or to it), using slice 'c'.

You can't access slices if you don't have an fdisk table to define the
slices wih.  Try /dev/rda16c.

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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