I ran fdisk and disklabel, im not splitting up the disks they are just as large as their size allows. They were both used running windows 98 which is why i fdisked to a6 format, then ran newfs /dev/wd1a and newfs /dev/wd2a .. both times it built the file system and the super blocks just fine.
What are some of the reasons why it would give that error message? dmesg prints out wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <Maxtor 91024U3> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 9765MB, 19999728 sectors wd1 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 1: <QUANTUM FIREBALLlct10 20> wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 19470MB, 39876480 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 wd1(pciide0:0:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 wd2 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <MDT MD400EB-00CPF0> wd2: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 38166MB, 78165360 sectors The disks im having an issue with are wd1 and wd2. On 8/9/05, Tom Cosgrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> mojo fms 9-Aug-05 21:04 >>> > > > > I have not seen this error before so i was wondering if i might of > > forgotten something with setting up these two new drives. > > > > iris# mount /dev/wd1a /mnt > > mount_ffs: /dev/wd1a on /mnt: Inappropriate file type or format > > > > Any help is apprechated. > > > > Thanks > > Have you run disklabel and newfs? Depending on the platform you may > need to run fdisk first, too. You don't say what you've done, but the > output of fdisk (if appropriate) and disklabel might help. As might > dmesg, as usual! > > Thanks > > Tom
