On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 07:34:36PM +1100, Geoff Wing wrote:
   > Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com> wrote:
   > :>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jan 05 20:57:00 PST 2001
   > :>Release:        NetBSD-current (anon-cvs synced as of 10 minutes ago) jan 5 2001
   > :Machine: i386
   > :	Something pretty bad just happened to "wd" disks.  I don't recall 
   > :	seeing a heads-up that disklabels were about to change in some
   > :	serious way.
   > 
   > The heads-up was in tech-kern (i386 changed from 8 to 16 partitions).
   > 
   > :	$ disklabel wd0
   > :	disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device
   > 
   > You need to cp src/etc/etc.i386/MAKEDEV /dev/ and run it (at least for
   > wd0 wd1 wd2 wd3) to make the extra character and block devices.
   > You also need a kernel at least as current (which you do).
   
   And you may also need to recompile disklabel, fdisk, etc ...



wasn't this change supposed to be completely backwards compatible?