From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 29 01:39:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD4537B401 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 01:39:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.rhodix.nl (mail.rhodix.nl [195.108.173.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512D843FBD for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 01:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from n.b@myrealbox.com) Received: from luxor.rhodix.nl (luxor [195.108.173.77]) by mail.rhodix.nl (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA29742 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:36:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from horus.rhodix.nl (horus.rhodix.nl [192.168.33.70]) by luxor.rhodix.nl (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA19052 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:39:31 +0200 (MEST) From: Guy Van Sanden To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1051561189.4259.2.camel@cronos.home.vsb> References: <1051561189.4259.2.camel@cronos.home.vsb> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1051605487.7247.7.camel@horus> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.3 Date: 29 Apr 2003 10:38:09 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Fwd: new hard drive, new problems, possibly related to 16383 cylinder spec] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:39:54 -0000 Hi Ross I got this kind of message too. I'm on FreeBSD 5.0. But I don't see any damage to filesystems. It didn't occur under 4.6.2, but I combined the reinstall with a BIOS upgrade ... One suggestion on a fix is what I'm planning (with a hole in it): 1. Boot with the livefs CD 2. mount all partitions and tar them to a safe place (for me, a second HD) 3. repartition/format the original disk again with the correct values 4. tar all data back to the disk 5. (I don't know how to do this) re-install the bootmanager on to the disk. This should theoretically fix it. Kind regards Guy On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 22:20, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > -----Forwarded Message----- > > From: Ross Lippert > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: new hard drive, new problems, possibly related to 16383 cylinder spec > Date: 27 Apr 2003 14:52:21 -0700 > > Hi, > > We installed a new harddrive over here. The first sign something was screwy > was when the FBSD (4.8) installed said "this drive has 74123 [some number > about there] cylinders and that is impossible! Please specify the geometry > manually" (well I didn't write the message down, so that's more of a > paraphrase ofit). > > After reading up on the fact that larger than 8GB drives (the new one is > 40GB) will report 16383x16x63 as the geometry, it seemed to me like this drive > was slightly violating this spec and reporting its true cylinder count. So > we manually set the geom to 16383x16x63 and proceeded merrily along. > > The install went off fine otherwise. > > The first boot went fine, and we did the usual stuff, cvsup, rebuild kernel, > recover homedirs from backups and so on. > > Second boot gives a lot of trouble on the fsck. All the partitions come > up with /dev/ad0s1[aefg]: FILESYSTEM CLEAN SKIPPING CHECKS, > which I guess is odd because we had modified the filesystem quite a bit, > and then the show-stopper: > /dev/ad0s1d: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY, RUN fsck MANUALLY. > The above happens to be /var for what that's worth. > > So we take the shell and do a manual fsck and are told: > CANNOT READ BLK 16 > CONTINUE? y > > THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 16, 17, ..., 31 > /dev/ad0s1d: NOT LABELLED AS A BSD FILESYSTEM (unused) > > > > What the heck just happened and how do we fix it? > > > > -r > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > -- > Guy Van Sanden