dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/amrd0 count=16
disklabel -rw amrd0 auto
newfs amrd0c
Don't bother slicing the array in this case; it's not worth the effort.
(The probable cause of your trouble is garbage at the beginning of the
slice you've created).
> I'm having trouble convincing -CURRENT to disklabel or newfs an AMI
> MEGARAID adapter.
>
> amr0: <AMI MegaRAID> irq 10 at device 11.1 on pci0
> amr0: firmware GH89 bios 1.41 16MB memory
> amrd0: <MegaRAID logical drive> on amr0
> amrd0: 122647MB (251181056 sectors) RAID 5 (optimal)
>
> [1:22:322]root@raid1:~> fdisk amrd0
> ******* Working on device /dev/ramrd0 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=15635 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
>
> Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
> parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
> cylinders=15635 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
>
> Media sector size is 512
> Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
> Information from DOS bootblock is:
> The data for partition 1 is:
> sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
> start 63, size 251176212 (122644 Meg), flag 80 (active)
> beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
> end: cyl 274/ sector 63/ head 254
> The data for partition 2 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 3 is:
> <UNUSED>
> The data for partition 4 is:
> <UNUSED>
>
> [1:29:329]root@raid1:~> disklabel -w -r amrd0s1 auto
> disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument
> disklabel: auto: unknown disk type
>
> Dav.e
>
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