[SOLVED] Re: seeking help on "adding a disk"

[Jerry McAllister]

> > > 
> > > 
> > > This is all I have:
> > > 
> > > $ ls -lh /dev/r*
> > > crw-rw-rw-  1 root  wheel    0,  10 Apr  9 15:55 /dev/random
> > > 
> > > No raw devices.
> > 
> > Yes.  devices don't just show up and stay there any more.  They
> > are managed by devfs.   I haven't studied that to see just how
> > it works yet, so I don't know at which point it should start showing
> > up in /dev if ever.
> > 
> > I just figured trying a newfs with the /dev/r... might be something
> > to try out to see what happened - sort of an experiment and if that
> > doesn't do it, then maybe the thing to pursue is your concern about
> > the cables.
> > 
> > If that doesn't work, I think this has gone beyond any problems I
> > have
> > ever had so I don't know what else to suggest.  Hopefully someone
> > else 
> > will have some thing to say.
> > 
> > ////jerry
> 
> 
> I changed to a UDMA 133 cable (80-wire) and that solved the problem;
> the newfs command succeeded!

So, you were right in the first place.
Well, that is often the way it is.

Enjoy,

////jerry

> 
> Peter
> 
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