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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: hard disk problem
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Date: 28 May 90 19:28:39 GMT
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+We've been having some problems trying to add a Wren VI to our system.  We
+presently have a 330 Mb drive from which we want to continue to boot. We used
+Ronald Antony's formatting program and  we used "disk" to install a filesystem
+The problem is that we are unable to mount the filesystem.  We added an 
+entry to /private/etc/fstab and it now looks like
+/dev/sdoa / 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 1
+/dev/sd1a /newdisk 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 2
+We tried to mount using /usr/etc/mount /dev/sd1a /newdisk  but we get a
+message "Device is busy.  Giving up on /newdisk."  The filesystem seems to be
+mounted (we can read and write to it),
It seems to me that you have rebooted the machine to have the
/etc/fstab take effect. As a result the machine aotomatically mounts
the disk with the startup scripts as it consults the /etc/fstab file.
Thus you get the message device busy.

+                                     but Disk Info in the Workspace Manager 
+doesn't work.  
Is the active file on the new disk? WS just shows the current drive.
Use also df or mount (without parameters) to get info on filesystems
and their status.

+Furthermore, when we reboot, the system spends a long time
+checking the 330Mb drive and tells us that it has made repairs.
As I guess your drive have different scsi-targets (otherwise you would
not have gotten this far) I have no clue why you get this error. Is it
consistent? Do you also get it if you are not trying to mount the
drive manually?

Ronald

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