I was playing last night on my home FreeBSD system which is the only
machine there that has internet access. And did something wrong.
Had added two new SATA HD's and was playing with gstripe, adjusting
the stripe size. Default 4k stripe resulted in a filesystem that runs
at only 10 MB/sec o
On Mar 18, 2008, at 1:45 PM, David Kelly wrote:
Cutting to the chase, my Windows-style partition table is sane (does
the FreeBSD "partition" need to be marked bootable?), and my BSD
slice table appears to be reasonable and sane. But the drive is not
bootable.
"fdisk -B ad0" didn't hurt n
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:26 PM, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Having had a fresh attack at my broken system tonight I discovered the
> original PATA drive boots if I disable the SATA drives in BIOS. What
> appears to be happening is that no matter the BIOS is told to boot
> "IDE" (
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:31:18AM -0400, Walker wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:26 PM, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > System is now booting ad0 by starting at ad4 and hopping to ad6,
> > then to ad0.
>
> Yes, you've discovered a "feature" of the 400SC (I have 3). If you
> h
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 2:07 PM, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, thats what is running now. Sadly I've already recycled the two SATA
> drives that came out and don't remember how they were configured that
> the PATA drive booted. Know I have used boot0cfg(8) in the past but
> don'
