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Subject: Re: seeking help on "adding a disk"
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--- Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:

[snip]

> > # newfs -U /dev/ad2s1e
> 
> Newfs used to require the raw device name, as in
> 
>    newfs -U /dev/rad2s1e
> 
> but I see the man page doesn't show that in its example now, so
> maybe it no long does.   Try it once and see.

> > > The newfs should then work after the bsdlabel is fixed up.
> > 
> > Nope.  Same error.  Retries of newfs causes crashes at random
> sectors. 
> > I am guessing that the 40-wire cable is causing poor signaling.  I
> also
> > tried changing the offset of 'e' to 0 and modifying the 'size' so
> that
> > it matches 'c'.
> 
> Could be.  If using rad2s1e doesn't help, then maybe that is your
> problem.


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.

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