From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 27 17: 4:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A536414BEA for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 17:04:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA16819; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:33:58 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA00681; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:33:56 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990328103355.O53452@lemis.com> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:33:55 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Matt of the Long Red Hair , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newfs of ccd0 crashes References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Matt of the Long Red Hair on Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 01:58:27PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 26 March 1999 at 13:58:27 -0500, Matt of the Long Red Hair wrote: > > I've trying to get ccd set up on my home box with a pair of large drives, but > every time I try to newfs the ccd the machine crashes. I've gone through my > setup a number of times (I'm working from the instructions at > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/diskformat.html) but can't see > what might be going wrong. I'm including all the seemingly relevant info I > can below. Well, there's a lot more I'd like to see: 1. Which version of FreeBSD are you running? 2. What do you mean by "crash"? Is it a panic, a spontaneous reboot or a hang? >> From dmesg: > wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa > wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): > wd0: 16479MB (33750864 sectors), 33483 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S > wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa > wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): > wd2: 16479MB (33750864 sectors), 33483 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S Just out of interest, where are your / and /usr file systems? > The labels of the two drives after changing the drive type: Look OK. > I noticed that the drive geometry set by `disklabel -r -w wd0 auto` (and on > wd2) is slightly different than that reported by the drivers at boot. Is this > a possible source of trouble? No, only the low-level drivers look at that geometry. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message