On 16-8-2010 20:14, Roland Smith wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:35:58AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 04:49 AM, Adam Vande More<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijk<[email protected]> wrote:
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
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. :-)
Good idea. I will give it a shot, although I'm pretty sure I'm not the
cause. I have four years experience as a (Open)Solaris system administrator
and before that I used FreeBSD heavely. From the 4.10 series up to the 6.x
series. So I do know something about the matter. But, we'll see... Keep you
posted.
It could be that newfs is overwriting the partition table.
Can you post the output of 'gpart show<device>' and 'bsdlabel<device>s1'?
I have found the cause of my troubles. Using FixIt I was able today to
use my ad8 with gpart and newfs it without errors. I also found out that
zpool scrub pool was waiting for an uninterruptible disk wait. That made
me remember I used to have troubles before in this hardware setting.
The problem lies in a flaw in my MB. I have one ATA disk attached as
master and an ATAPI dvd drive (slave) on ATA channel 0 plus four SATA2
drives (ATA channel 4,5,6,7 master). Somehow this does not work OK.
Without the ATA drive on channel 0 (an older model) my four SATA2 drives
work perfectly. I suspect some kind of interrupt issue.
Problem: FreeBSD is installed on my ATA drive on channel 0. I tried to
do a minimal install on drive ad8 today to dump/restore the system over
and get rid of that lousy ATA drive. Bad luck. Sysinstall can't find
/dev/ad8s1b so it can't complete the creation of the filesystems. And
thus I can't do a minimal install on this SATA2 drive.
Any ideas how I can overcome this issue?
westmark# atacontrol list
ATA channel 0:
Master: ad0 <ST3160021A/8.01> ATA/ATAPI revision 6
Slave: acd0 <PLEXTOR DVDR PX-755A/1.08> ATA/ATAPI revision 6
ATA channel 1:
Master: no device present
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 2:
Master: no device present
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 3:
Master: no device present
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 4:
Master: ad8 <Hitachi HDP725050GLA360/GM4OA5CA> SATA revision 2.x
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 5:
Master: ad10 <Hitachi HDP725050GLA360/GM4OA50E> SATA revision 2.x
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 6:
Master: ad12 <Hitachi HDT721010SLA360/ST6OA31B> SATA revision 2.x
Slave: no device present
ATA channel 7:
Master: ad14 <Hitachi HDS721010CLA332/JP4OA39C> SATA revision 2.x
Slave: no device present
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