On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijk <[email protected]> wrote:
> I learned a lot from the scripts. ;-) The drives work wonderful as a > gmirror now. > My 500Gb drives won't however. they keep on giving cg); bad magic number. > Sysinstall won't newfs the drives. newfs -U /dev/gm1a (created with the > script mentioned before does not work OK either. Always this unexplained > message (cg0: bad magic number). I have NO CLUE whatsoever what can be the > cause of this. Both drives can be formatted by Windows, Linux and lots of > other utilities. They can not be formatted UFS2 for / by FreeBSD-8.1/amd64 > > I would love to get some feedback about possible causes and/or solutions. > right now those two 500Gb drives are useless. Spining around for no good. > ;-) You can try to get your system up and running using something like http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ or pcbsd. If that works, then I guess the possible cause is you. :-) -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
