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Subject: i386/14027: initializing disk labels under FreeBSD 3.X
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>Number:         14027
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       "disklabel -r -w" on new disk reports "No space left on device"
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Sep 28 16:50:01 PDT 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Walt Howard
>Release:        FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
University of Utah Electrical Engineering Dept
>Environment:
Dual-686 motherboard (450 MHz)
                 Adaptec 7880 SCSI controller on motherboard
                 IBM DRVS09V 9GB SCSI disk drives (not root drive)
                 System has two IDE drives and a SCSI boot drive

>Description:
Physically add drives at SCSI targets 8 and 9
                   The controller does wide SCSI, and the disks are wide also.
                 run /dev/MAKEDEV da8 da9 da8s1a da8s2a da8s3a da8s4a da9s1a
                 run fdisk to create slices
                   this worked, and left the first 64 sectors for a bootblock.
                   I also tried "fdisk -e", which also worked.
                 add entry for drvs09v-8s1 to /etc/disktab
                   it includes offset, partition-size, blocksize, and
                   fragment-size values for partitions c, e, f, g.
                 run disklabel -r -w da8s1 drvs09v-8s1
                   I tried several variants of the disk-device name.
                   get immediate response "disklabel: No space left on device"
                   find message from kernel in /var/log/messages about lack
                   of existing label on da8

>How-To-Repeat:

	See above.  The prototype files were derived from information on a
        FreeBSD 3.2 machine configured identically.  On that prototype, we
        configured all disks during the install.

        May be related to the existence of the bootblock area; we find
        that we cannot boot from a SCSI disk which has the bootblock
        outside the slices.  There are complaints about no ufs filesystem.

>Fix:
	
	Workaround may be to re-install and configure all disks then.
        I don't know what I'll do if I need to add more disks later.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
 Walt Howard


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