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Subject: Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 04:49  AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wro=
te:
> 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 numbe=
r.
> > Sysinstall won't newfs the drives. newfs -U /dev/gm1a (created with the
> > script mentioned before does not work OK either. Always this unexplaine=
d
> > 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/am=
d64
>=20
> 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 caus=
e.
I have four years experience as a (Open)Solaris system administrator and be=
fore 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 poste=
d.