Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 12:47:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: The Shadow <root@vpm.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a new HD. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960430124641.2266C-100000@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199604300507.WAA04636@vpm.com>
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On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, The Shadow wrote: > I've added a Seagate and ran fdisk & disklabel. Not remembering how > to add a hard drive on the fly I'm not sure I did it right. This information was posted to -questions the other day. >From jraynard@dial.pipex.comTue Apr 30 12:44:56 1996 Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 02:20:45 GMT From: James Raynard <jraynard@dial.pipex.com> To: matt@xanadu2.net Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Need Help!!! >>>>> "Matthew Z. Stout" <matt@xanadu2.net> writes: > > I have sent several pieces of e-mail in the past few days, and am in > desperate need of a reply. I need to know the exact procedure for > preparing a new hard drive for use in a FreeBSD 2.1 machine. I have a > 2.2 gig SCSI-2 hard drive, and have been struggling with fdisk and > newfs for a week now. I simply need someone to outline the proper > steps for use of fdisk, newfs and mount in the installation of this > hard drive. There's a posting I saved from Usenet last month at the end of this message. Another alternative is to run the installation program (it's /stand/sysinstall), use the partition and fdisk editors to set up the new disk and use the 'w' option to write them to the disk. Make sure you quit before it starts actually installing anything, though! If you're worried about damaging your existing disk, you could remove/disconnect it, boot off an installation floppy and setup the new disk in the same way. (Disclaimer - I don't have a second disk, I haven't tried any of these procedures myself and I don't know if any of them actually work. Make sure you have everything backed up before you start) From: Ron Bolin <rlb@mindspring.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Howto Add a 2nd SCSI Disk, example Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 07:05:55 -0500 Organization: Federated Systems Group Lines: 32 Message-ID: <315A80A3.41C67EA6@mindspring.com> Just for documentation purposes, I figured out how to add a second SCSI disk (with Sean Fagan's tip). Here is the basics with an example of adding sd2 (on my system sd0 is for NT, sd1 is freebsd, sd2 is the 2nd freebsd disk I want to add): 1. Figure out your disk parameters and make an entry in /etc/disktab. For me it was a st12400n. 2. Zero out the boot block of the new disk with: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd2 bs=1k count=1 3. fdisk -u /dev/rsd2, and update necessary info in the partition you wish to use. I used partion 3 (aka /dev/sd2c). 4. disklabel -rw /dev/sd2 st12400n. 5. newfs -T st12400n /dev/rsd2c. 6. run fsck /dev/rsd2c. 7. mount disk on a valid mount point. 8. add entry to /etc/fstab for automount. Hope this helps anyone that needs to add a second SCSI disk. -Ron 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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