Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 19:04:28 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Perc 2/SC problems (aka MegaRAID 466) Message-ID: <200002170304.TAA03502@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:41:09 EST." <4.2.2.20000216213742.0335de98@mail.sentex.net>
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> At 05:15 PM 2/16/2000 -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I have been trying to get a PERC 2 (aka MegaRAID 466) working with > > > Current. The box worked fine with the 428, but seems to barf with only the > > > controller swapped. > > > >I don't think the two controllers share on-disk configuration formats; > >you'll probably need to re-initialise the array (I could be wrong about > >that). > > Yes, I did that. I blew away the old config, created a new set, and > initialized the array. > > > You probably don't want to do that with a valid slice table installed; > >the slice code does silly things. Try nuking it first: > > > ># dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/amrd0 count=16 > > newmail# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/amrd0 count=16 > 16+0 records in > 16+0 records out > 8192 bytes transferred in 0.006427 secs (1274613 bytes/sec) > newmail# disklabel -Brw amrd0 auto > newmail# disklabel -e amrd0 > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument Hmm. I should have paid more attention to the fdisk output the first time; you already had the whole-disk label in place. What's the output from 'disklabel mlxd0'? -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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