On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:22:16PM -0400, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
> When mounting (or rather trying to!) a drive, what is the 
> significance of a failure accompanied by the message "device not 
> configured"? It is a 2 Gig Seagate drive that I have used mkfs (in 
> the Mac OS) to create a 2 Gig partition on.

Dan, 

I've only done this a half dozen times or so, so I could easily be
wrong, but I think you don't have a filesystem on the drive. The
only times I've seen that message, I had either misidentified the
device or hadn't run newfs.  

I'd disklabel(8) the drive again, and use newfs(8).  

I figure, how likely are you to get better (NetBSD) advice on a
Sunday afternoon?  

Cheers, 

--jkl