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