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Date:      Sat, 4 Oct 2008 09:35:31 -0700
From:      "Don O'Neil" <lists@lizardhill.com>
To:        "'Wojciech Puchar'" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, "'Michael Powell'" <nightrecon@verizon.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1
Message-ID:  <4A5E18EB2ED142C2B97EFD5A82AA805F@mickey>
In-Reply-To: <20081004181923.N2683@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <D3314319D28D4C51B1D721DFFE21F942@mickey><gc7s7u$kba$1@ger.gmane.org> <20081004181923.N2683@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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>>> I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16, but that 
>>> didn't help.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help me get this new disk installed without having to boot 
>>> off a recovery CD? The server is 500 miles away from me and I don't 
>>> have direct console access.
>>>
>>
>> Uhmm... This may seem silly, but did you use fdisk to create a slice 
>> first before you tried partitioning?
>>
>this is NOT needed. actually i don't do it anywhere.
>
>it just may be sysinstall problem, anything else.

I tried using fdisk first, same problem, won't let me write to the disk.




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