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[Peter Grehan]

Hi Graham,

> Unfortunately the Quantum Atlas on my ATTO SCSI card is not recognised, 
> so I had to rejig things to get data [oh, OK, my iTunes library ;-)] off 
> of an IDE-attached Maxtor so that I could partition that.  Did so (two 
> partitions in Darwin - disk1s3 for FreeBSD and disk1s5 for swap).  Chose 
> the automagic option in the disklabel editor - this chose to put a few 
> mounts (/, /usr, /var, swap IIRC) in ad1s3 and didn't work.  Went back 
> to disklabel editor and chose a new layout:
> ad1s3    /    18508MB    UFS2    Y
> ad1s5    swap    1015MB    SWAP
> 
> However, I still get errors:
> WARNING!  Unable to swap to /dev/ad1s5: Device busy

  I think once the 'auto' option was selected, it isn't possible to roll 
back to using partitions underneath those slices. I even suspect the 
same would happen on i386.

> so where to go from here...?  :)

  Reboot, do the install again, and go straight to your selected disk 
layout this time.

later,

Peter.