From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 23 0:21:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (c487804-a.frmt1.sfba.home.com [24.1.51.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B8F37BDE4; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:21:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA01040; Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:25:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200003230825.AAA01040@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Eric Sabban Cc: Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 22 Mar 2000 18:16:22 PST." <38D97E76.BAD2FCF6@clickrebates.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:25:01 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Try low-levelling the drives. The behavior sounds similar to what I had a long time ago, low level formatting them fixed the problem. Not a good idea. Sounds more like sysinstall is massively out of sync with the rest of the system; it's not updated with the rest of the world. > > -eric > > Forrest Aldrich wrote: > > > Since this is a fairly current issue, I'm posting this appropriately. > > > > I have a DELL server that has hooked up to it a PowerVault, with 8 36gb 10krpm LVD drives. The system has recognized these previously and dmesg shows them present; however, /stand/sysinstall says that I don't have ANY disks installed when using Label or Fdisk. > > > > Is this a known bug? I've done a buildworld/installworld yesterday after a cvsup. > > > > TIA. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message