Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:14:32 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1 Message-ID: <20100816181432.GA66710@slackbox.erewhon.net> In-Reply-To: <1281947758890646500@nagual.nl> References: <4C669668.5040906@nagual.nl> <19558.60756.860555.968721@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <4C66F542.6090501@nagual.nl> <19559.15997.480750.380264@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <4C6835B9.7000900@nagual.nl> <AANLkTi=fYtMYLeWgM8JZdECbv8EfkVSQcoSeFyLsOGXK@mail.gmail.com> <1281947758890646500@nagual.nl>
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--IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:35:58AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 04:49 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> w= rote: > > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> wrote: > > > My 500Gb drives won't however. they keep on giving cg); bad magic num= ber. > > > Sysinstall won't newfs the drives. newfs -U /dev/gm1a (created with t= he > > > script mentioned before does not work OK either. Always this unexplai= ned > > > message (cg0: bad magic number). I have NO CLUE whatsoever what can b= e the > > > cause of this. Both drives can be formatted by Windows, Linux and lot= s of > > > other utilities. They can not be formatted UFS2 for / by FreeBSD-8.1/= amd64 > >=20 > > 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. :-) >=20 > 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 administra= tor > 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 y= ou > posted. It could be that newfs is overwriting the partition table. Can you post the output of 'gpart show <device>' and 'bsdlabel <device>s1'? Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkxpgAgACgkQEnfvsMMhpyU+aACcDeIeVWlBYiAbWiPPso2JxY74 7HUAoJm70x0RTFcZyQcr7WF8UfP6ksGC =Qmx8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IJpNTDwzlM2Ie8A6--
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