Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:38:57 +0200 From: Harald Schmalzbauer <h@schmalzbauer.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Philip Murray <pmurray@nevada.net.nz> Subject: Re: 3Ware 9500 and disklabel Message-ID: <200407221139.03935@harryhomeworkstation> In-Reply-To: <40FF8283.1030102@nevada.net.nz> References: <40FF8283.1030102@nevada.net.nz>
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--Boundary-02=_3s4/AAJ9Cph2JGH Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2004 11:01 schrieb Philip Murray: > Hi, > > I'm trying to test out -CURRENT (22/7/2004) on a dual Opteron (Tyan > board) with a 3Ware 9500-8 raid controller and I'm having problems with > disklabel. > > At the moment I have a RAID0 array totalling 600GB. I fdisk'd them to > create a single partition using the entire volume, fdisk (from > sysinstall) complained about the geometry, I wasn't sure what the > correct geometry was, so I forged ahead anyway. > > Then I went to try and disklabel it. It seemed to work from sysinstall > until I went to write the changes out and it complained "ERROR: Unable > to write data to disk da0!'. So I tried disklabel on the command line, as > so AFAIK geom only prevents you from direct access to disks where your kernel= =20 booted from. In your case it is ad4 and I think da1 shouldn't be affected b= ut=20 perhaps you want to set the sysctl kern.geom.debugflags to 16. Best regards, =2DHarry > > disklabel -e /dev/da0s1 > > Where it promptly hangs (won't respond to ^C), ps lists it as > > root 641 0.0 0.0 5600 940 p1 DL+ 8:48PM 0:00.01 > disklabel -e /dev/da0s1 > > Is this something stupid I've done (geometry?) or a bug with the twa > driver? > > I've attached my dmesg FWIW, any other information I can provide on > request. > > Philip --Boundary-02=_3s4/AAJ9Cph2JGH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBA/4s3Bylq0S4AzzwRAtVRAJ987hF5GbkYEr7uyC7a4nsZb3qUSQCghJbD mWimosRM3Gjnxrm3DG7Lubk= =5PrK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_3s4/AAJ9Cph2JGH--
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