Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:20:21 -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.3.96.980712021932.2422g-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980711225044.00939240@mail.kersur.net>
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On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > >> >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. > > I'm confused. I have no such devices. Nor will MAKEDEV create anything > that looks like that (e.g. a diskname ending with 'c'). Wierd. You can't use the slice notation until you have slices, and if you don't have a partition table y ou don't have slices. Try MAKEDEV da16 and see what you get. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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