Oliver Iberien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 04:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Oliver Iberien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There was a thread about this a while ago, but it did not seem to end in > > > a solution... In any case, I have a 160GB Seagate drive that I was trying > > > to mount a partition on as /disk2. I went through the instructions in the > > > Handbook under "Formatting Media for Use With FreeBSD." No formatting > > > seemed to be happening, though. When I added it to fstab, something in > > > KDE found it and then failed to open it. mount shows that it has not been > > > mounted, and if I try to mount it: > > > > > > bsd# mount -u /dev/ad1s2c /disk2 > > > mount: /dev/ad1s2c on /disk2: specified device does not match mounted > > > device bsd# mount /dev/ad1s2c /disk2 > > > mount: /dev/ad1s2c: Input/output error > > > > > > I looked at the previous thread and then tried: > > > > > > bsd# newfs /dev/ad1s2c > > > /dev/ad1s2c: 52627.0MB (107780084 sectors) block size 16384, fragment > > > size 2048 > > > using 287 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. > > > super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: > > > 160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624, > > > 3010976, ... > > > 107260480, 107636832 > > > cg 0: bad magic number > > > > > > I had two partitions on it, one to be used for linux later on. I tried > > > swapping them out, but no difference. > > > > > > This drive worked under linux. Any ideas? > > > > Sounds like you didn't write a disklabel on it. > > That's covered in the tutorial you mentioned... > > I used the disklabel tool in sysinstall. But it did not seem to do anything...
Try doing the disklabel from the command line, so you can show an exact transcript. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
