Subject: Re: Disk partition "device not configured"
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. <drk@shore.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 07/15/2001 18:27:44
Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 01:22:16PM -0400, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
>> When mounting (or rather trying to!) a drive, what is the
>> significance of a failure accompanied by the message "device not
>> configured"? It is a 2 Gig Seagate drive that I have used mkfs (in
>> the Mac OS) to create a 2 Gig partition on.
>>
>> It gives the same msg when I try to fsck or fsck_ffs it.
>
>What does disklabel say about this disk (just give the name to disklabel,
>e.g. 'disklabel wd0')
>
I figured it out - I was looking at the wrong partition! I had
thought, from what I could see in mkfs, that the partition would be
sd2c, but disklabel showed that it had to be sd2g! Confusing, as
there are only 3 partitions!
Thanks,
Dan Killoran