Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:13:06 +0100 From: "Graeme Dargie" <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1 Message-ID: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392904F7C1@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> In-Reply-To: <4C69A443.60308@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><20100816181432.GA66710@slackbox.erewhon.net> <4C69A443.60308@nagual.nl>
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-----Original Message----- From: Dick Hoogendijk [mailto:dick@nagual.nl]=20 Sent: 16 August 2010 21:49 To: Roland Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1 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<amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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 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=20 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=20 master and an ATAPI dvd drive (slave) on ATA channel 0 plus four SATA2=20 drives (ATA channel 4,5,6,7 master). Somehow this does not work OK.=20 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=20 do a minimal install on drive ad8 today to dump/restore the system over=20 and get rid of that lousy ATA drive. Bad luck. Sysinstall can't find=20 /dev/ad8s1b so it can't complete the creation of the filesystems. And=20 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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Bit of a long shot, but have you tried enabling AHCI mode for the sata drives in the bios and setting ahci_load=3D"YES" in /boot/loader.conf assuming your the board supports it. Regards Graeme
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