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Date:      Wed, 15 May 2002 16:32:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      David Miller <dmiller@sparks.net>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adaptec 3200S + Dell 2100S problems 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205151454410.25572-100000@search.sparks.net>
In-Reply-To: <200205151856.g4FIum993819@aslan.scsiguy.com>

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On Wed, 15 May 2002, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:

> >On Wed, 15 May 2002, Justin T. Gibbs wrote:
> >> >but disklabel doesn't want to work:
> >> >
> >> >bash-2.05a# disklabel -e -r da0
> >> >disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled)
> >> 
> >> disklabel -e only works if there is a pre-existing label on the drives.
> >> Try disklabel -w -r da0 auto followed by disklabel -e -r da0.
> >
> >bash-2.05a# disklabel -w -r da0
> 
> You forgot "auto" at the end.

That wasn't very clever of me, now was it? :(

The problem appears to be solved; apparently there was an intermittently
bad disk that was not letting the boot block get updated.  When I
configured that one out of the array things started working.

Sorry to be a nuisance; I should have seen that before posting in the
first place.

--- David


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