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Date:      Wed, 1 Feb 1995 17:47:12 +0000 ()
From:      Jeff Carr <jcarr@freedom.wit.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   disklabel problem
Message-ID:  <199502011747.RAA01552@freedom.wit.com>

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I'm hopeing someone might be able to help me with this problem:?

We have 7 drives on 2 scsi controllers. All the drives worked.
I had partitioned them under 1.1.5.1. The drives are each 3gig. I had
to partition them into 2 and 1 gig partitions. Now we have FreeBSD 2.0.
I thought I would create large partitions since this should be possible.
For 3 of the drives(sd1,sd2 and sd6) disklabel works fine, I did a new
disklabel and newfs and mounted the successfully. For the other 3 drives,
I can't run disklabel at all. I tried every option and it always says the
same thing: "Device not configured"

freedom#disklabel sd3
disklabel: /dev/rsd3c: Device not configured
freedom#disklabel sd4
disklabel: /dev/rsd4c: Device not configured
freedom#disklabel -r sd3
disklabel: /dev/rsd3c: Device not configured
freedom#disklabel /dev/rsd3a
disklabel: /dev/rsd3a: Device not configured

I tried to make new devices with MAKEDEV. I tried checking the config file
for the kernel and made a new one. Still the same.

The strange thing is that on the drives that don't disklabel, I
can still do a newfs on the a & b partitions and mount them and use them.
So, I reformated one of the drives with the SCSI controller(sd3) and tried to
do a disklabel and it doesn't work and I can't do a newfs now either.

So, I am left with a two fragmented drives and one I cant use at all now.
Please help me if you can, You're operating system has be very good as
a whole and we are quite pleased with it.
jcarr@wit.com



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