"Justin P. Michel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having a slight problem with a 300GB IDE (Maxtor) HDD. Basically, I've > run the drive on the system through a complete low-level format and test > with the PowerMAX tools, which passed fine. The BIOS recognizes and > auto-detects the drive okay as well. > > However, in trying to install FreeBSD 6.0, it goes through the partition > section okay, and then the slice section okay (trying to use a full slice on > the drive as /dumpdata), the mount fails, and on the alternate screen it > shows newfs failing. > > Is there a special way to get this drive to work? Does someone have > experience with a similar setup that may shed some light my way? I feel > like a beginner all over again. : P
Presuming it is a brand new disk and is addressed as the second one (eg ad1), >From root (su-ed to root) try this: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=64 fdisk -BI ad1 bsdlabel -w -B ad1s1 bsdlabel -e ad1s1 If you do not want it bootable, then skip the -B switches. When you do the bsdlabel -e it will put you in an editor session with the base settings in the file. Modify it slightly as follows. Make the top line look something like: a: * * 4.2BSD 2048 16384 94 # (Cyl. 0 - 32*) The '94' may be different. If it suggests something else, then take that. Then write/quit from the editor and it will write the label. Then do the newfs: newfs -U /dev/rad1s1a If newfs gets an error, write it down specifically. If no error, try mounting: mount /dev/ad1s1a /dumpdata Presumably you have made the directory /dumpdata? That may seem to simple to mention, but I have made that mistake more than once and went nuts wondering why things (in a script) didn't work. Good luck, ////jerry _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"