On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 05:02:14PM -0500, Emre Yildirim wrote:
> I bought a new 80GB disk today that I want to use with my NetBSD box.
> Somehow something isn't working right:
> 
> # newfs /dev/wd2d
> newfs: /dev/wd2d: not a character-special device
> Oct 24 01:09:17 pineapple /netbsd: wd2d: aborted command reading fsbn 
> 156301484 of 156301484-156301487 (wd2 bn 156301484; cn 155060 tn 15 sn 
> 59), retrying

Label (partition) the disk first and then newfs the partition(s) you have
created.  On i386. you never use the partition d (the entire disk), use
partition e instead (if you want to use the disk as a single partition).

With newfs, use the raw device (ie. /dev/rwd2e).

  -jm