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From: rtp1@quads.uchicago.edu (raymond thomas pierrehumbert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: How to mount a new disk?
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Date: 9 Jul 90 19:56:46 GMT
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After weeks and weeks of waiting, the gold-plated $7500 Maxtor
disk for my DN10000 (you know, the kind that costs $2200 with
a 2 year warrantee if you buy it as a SCSI disk for a Sun) finally
arrived.  The technician installed it and invol'd it, but he knows
no Unix at all, and couldn't figure out how to mount it in my
BSD4.3-only environment.  He called somebody back at the office
and still couldn't figure it out.  Jeez, this is ridiculous.
    Can somebody tell me what I need to do?  I imagine that
I need to create some kind of file in the /dev directory, maybe
something like wn1a (controller 1,first device).  How do I do
this?  The man pages on mkdev are unhelpful. Then how do I mount
it?  The man pages on mount seem to suggest that it is only for
removable file systems, like tape, or remote file systems.  Is
it true, or by "removable" do they also include internal disks
that cannot be physically removed?  Anyway, if /etc/mount is
what I need, what arguments does it take to mount a winchester
disk?  Please help, I'm starving for disk space.
.