OSEC

Neohapsis is currently accepting applications for employment. For more information, please visit our website www.neohapsis.com or email hr@neohapsis.com
Re: Problem with new IDE disk

From: Stéphane Chausson (stephane.chaussonlaposte.net)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2007 - 04:34:32 CDT


Miod Vallat wrote, On 23/08/07 15:50:
>> # fdisk -i wd2
>> # disklabel -E wd2 (created 'a' partition)
>> # newfs wd2a
>
> [...]
>
>> wd2a: id not found writing fsbn 488397104 (wd2 bn 8796581419375; cn
>> 547561868 tn 158 sn 1), retrying
>
> It looks like you are indeed running a -CURRENT (or fairly recent) kernel,
> but with an older userland.
>
> Are you sure your fdisk, disklabel and newfs binaries are on par with the
> kernel?
>
> Miod
>

It may be trivial but I wonder where in the line you highlighted is the
clue that gave you the answer.