What Klaus said... much better than my 'by hand' method :)


On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Klaus Klein wrote:

>Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:51:53 +0100
>From: Klaus Klein <kleink@reziprozitaet.de>
>To: je <cavebeck@yahoo.com>
>Cc: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
>Subject: Re: NetBSD fdisk/fstab help
>
>On Friday 05 March 2004 00:08, je wrote:
>> I'm setting up a Via mini-itx server running NetBSD
>> 1.6.2. It has 4 200GB disks (2 on onboard ide, 2 on a
>> Promise ATA133 card) and a 20 GB system disk (slave on
>> onboard channel 1). All drives show up in dmesg, but
>> one of them isn't recognized by fdisk.
>>
>> wd0  200GB
>> wd1   20GB (boot disk)
>> wd2  200GB
>> wd3  200GB
>> wd4  200GB <- this one
>>
>> When I fdisk wd4 I get an error like "rwd4a not
>> found". I had to remove this disk to install the OS
>> from CD, so I think maybe something isn't right in the
>> fstab?
>
>A guess: do you have device nodes for wd4?  The distribution
>comes with wd[0-3] only, so you may need to go to /dev and
>./MAKEDEV wd4.
>
>
>- Klaus
>