Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 16:43:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@ais.salford.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What's DIOCWLABEL mean? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902031636460.27828-100000@plato.salford.ac.uk>
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Trying to label the drives on a 3.0-STABLE box that has 7 drives connected to 3 channels, on a DPT SmartRAID IV. All drives are identical with 2 on each bus except bus 1 which has 3 drives. ------ da0 at dpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <IBM OEM DFHSS4S 4141> Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device da0: Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 4119MB (8436988 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 525C) da1 at dpt0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: <IBM OEM DFHSS4S 4141> Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device da1: Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 4119MB (8436988 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 525C) da2 at dpt0 bus 1 target 0 lun 0 da2: <IBM OEM DFHSS4S 4141> Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device da2: Tagged Queueing Enabled da2: 4119MB (8436988 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 525C) da3 at dpt0 bus 1 target 1 lun 0 da3: <IBM OEM DFHSS4S 4141> Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device da3: Tagged Queueing Enabled da3: 4119MB (8436988 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 525C) da4 at dpt0 bus 1 target 3 lun 0 da4: <IBM OEM DFHSS4S 4141> Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device da4: Tagged Queueing Enabled da4: 4119MB (8436988 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 525C) da5 at dpt0 bus 2 target 0 lun 0 da5: <IBM OEM DFHSS4S 4141> Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device da5: Tagged Queueing Enabled da5: 4119MB (8436988 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 525C) da6 at dpt0 bus 2 target 1 lun 0 da6: <IBM OEM DFHSS4S 4141> Fixed Direct Access SCSI2 device da6: Tagged Queueing Enabled da6: 4119MB (8436988 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 525C) ------ However, I just can't put a label on da4 onwards. da3 is no problem: ------ mimas:/ # disklabel -r da3 # /dev/rda3c: type: SCSI disk: da3s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 525 sectors/unit: 8436988 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 8436988 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 525*) c: 8436988 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 525*) ------ But da4, is: $ disklabel da3 > /tmp/label $ disklabel -R -r da4 /tmp/label disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device Why can I not alter the labels on da4-6 ? Many thanks. Mark Powell - System Administrator (UNIX) - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key M.S.Powell@ais.salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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