Subject: Re: A simple question (hopefully!)
To: Alan Perry <Alan.Perry@Eng.Sun.COM>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/26/1996 23:51:36
> After I run disklabel on the new disk, I cannot get the system to recognize
> the new partitions. For example, trying to newfs the new partitions returns
> with "Device not configured" against the raw device file. disklabel and
> disklabel -r report the partition info that I set up. I have also tried
I'm not sure why you get "Device not configured", but currently it's not
advisable to use disklabel's `-r' switch on the sparc. It can cause
confusion in the kernel about what the disklabel really is. This is
on the list to be fixed in the next release..
Using `disklabel -e <disk>' will do the job on SCSI disks even if the label
is wiped out.
-pk