From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 19 9:35:19 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E626E37B401; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:35:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [216.138.209.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C8D443F93; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:35:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@velocet.ca) Received: from trooper.velocet.ca (trooper.velocet.net [216.138.242.2]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 711E11381D0; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:35:16 -0500 (EST) Received: by trooper.velocet.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id 1BD9474625; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:35:16 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.velocet.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id 188F2567603; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:35:13 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15955.49232.993137.610963@canoe.velocet.net> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:35:12 -0500 To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: David Gilbert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simply impossible to format disk under current. In-Reply-To: <73879.1045675694@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <15955.44050.529506.835464@canoe.velocet.net> <73879.1045675694@critter.freebsd.dk> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "phk" == phk writes: phk> /dev/da2 is always writable unless you have any of the partitions phk> open. The error was that /dev/da2 didn't exist. I was confused too. fdisk da2 # worked, displyed one slice (3) that was NetBSD fdisk -I da2 # error, /dev/da2 doesn't exist ... it seemed like anything that wrote to da2 would fail, but read worked. phk> I guess you have whacked the disk now, so I won't be able to get phk> any debugging information. In the process of determining that it worked with 4.7-RELEASE I did format the disk, so I'm not sure that the disk itself is useful. phk> In case of disk/GEOM related problems, I need the output from phk> dmesg sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml or I won't really be able to do phk> debugging... I would bet that any NetBSD root disk installed by the NetBSD installer would exhibit the same problems. It should be easy to duplicate. I don't have a spare disk handy right now... but I might be able to do this in a week or two. I would expect that you can do this on your bench, tho. There wasn't anything special about the NetBSD disks ... they had just been formatted through the install process that NetBSD does. 1.5.2, I think. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message