From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 7 13: 9:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 651E837B403 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:09:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: (qmail 7864 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2001 20:18:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iowna.com) (151.201.71.193) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 7 Jun 2001 20:18:05 -0000 Message-ID: <3B1FDF04.2D290DBA@iowna.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 16:07:32 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: scanner@jurai.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sysinstall error adding disks.. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG scanner@jurai.net wrote: > > I am trying to add 2 18GB Seagate Cheetah drives with sysinstall on /a and > /b. So I can use them with Vinum. This box is a Dual proc, Dell Poweredge > 2400. The 3 drives in it are the same cheetah drives. They are hot > swap drives. Sysinstall had no problems labeling and installing on the > first one. I even had these other two mounted as /stripe0 /stripe1 on the > first install. But then i had problems with newfs -v setting up Vinum so i > figured id low level format them and reinstall. Everything seems fine with > the first SCSI disk but the other 2 sysinstall refuses to label. > > When I go to label the disks sysinstall vomits with: > > Error mounting /dev/da1s1e on /a : Invalid argument > > In a dialog box, and behind it I see: > > DEBUG: MakeDev: Unknown major/minor for devtype - > > I have never had a problem using sysinstall to add disks. This box is > supposed to go into a data center today. The box its replacing died and > my employers of course want it installed yesterday. I have never seen this > error. Anyone know how to resolve this? Do you have the necessary devices in /dev? If not, run MAKEDEV -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message