Have you tried disklabelling it?

	I usually

    	    disklabel -e sd1 		** until happy with partitions
	    disklabel sd1 > /tmp/LABEL
	    disklabel -R sd1 /tmp/LABEL

	I'm bound to be missing some subtlety.. but thats what you get
	with me replying to mail at 6am after an all nighter fighting
	IRIX (So, when is NetBSD/iris coming out? :)

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On Thu, 28 Mar 1996, Tank wrote:

> Greets all-
>
> This will be a dumb question, I know, but I can't seem to get it right.
>
> I am trying to add a disk to NetBSD... The drive appears during the boot as
> sd1... I have done
>
>         /dev/MAKEDEV sd1
>
> and the device files exist in the /dev directory.... however, I cannot
>
>         fdisk /dev/sd1
>
> nor can I
>
>         fdisk /dev/sd1a
>
> I attempted to look at the format(8) man pages, but they do not exist....
> I need to format this drive, and add it's space to /var
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> TNX
>
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