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Date:      Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:31:58 -0500
From:      Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Large disks (34GB), mounting and newfs problems
Message-ID:  <4.2.2.20000414161740.00a82a60@mail.utexas.edu>

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I was following the question of problems mounting a drive and now, I'm 
having some of the same problems.  This is a second drive in the system, 
connected as a slave to the first IDE drive.  It's an IBM Deskstar 34GXP, 
DPTA-373420.  I apologize for the length of the message but I did want to 
demonstrate that I followed the previous suggestions and was getting the 
right responses.  Here's the output from /var/log/messages:

Apr 14 16:22:16 amanda /kernel: wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 on isa
Apr 14 16:22:16 amanda /kernel: wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC WD136AA>
Apr 14 16:22:16 amanda /kernel: wd0: 12971MB (26564832 sectors), 26354 
cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
Apr 14 16:22:16 amanda /kernel: wdc0: unit 1 (wd1): <IBM-DPTA-373420>
Apr 14 16:22:17 amanda /kernel: wd1: 32634MB (66835440 sectors), 66305 
cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S


I issued the command "fdisk wd1" and received the following:

amanda# fdisk wd1
******* Working on device /dev/rwd1 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=66305 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=66305 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
     start 0, size 66835440 (32634 Meg), flag 80 (active)
         beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0;
         end: cyl 1023/ sector 63/ head 15
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>


I then issued the command "disklabel wd1s1" and received the following:

amanda# disklabel wd1s1
# /dev/rwd1s1c:
type: ESDI
disk: wd1s1
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 66305
sectors/unit: 66835440
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]
   c: 66835440        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 66304)


OK, so far so good.  I can then mount the drive without any problems:

amanda# mount /dev/wd1s1c /dump

which returns without any errors.

Here's the big problem, I try to run "newfs" with the following command, 
and when I get to the same block each time, 66781216, the machine reboots 
itself.  Here's the output from the command:

amanda# newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /dev/wd1s1c
newfs: /dev/wd1s1c: not a character-special device
Warning: 3088 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated
/dev/wd1s1c:    66835440 sectors in 16318 cylinders of 1 tracks, 4096 sectors
         32634.5MB in 1020 cyl groups (16 c/g, 32.00MB/g, 7936 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
  32, 65568, 131104, 196640, 262176, 327712, 393248, 458784, 524320, 589856,
...
  65601568, 65667104, 65732640, 65798176, 65863712, 65929248, 65994784, 
66060320,
  66125856, 66191392, 66256928, 66322464, 66388000, 66453536, 66519072, 
66584608,
  66650144, 66715680, 66781216,


If anybody has any information or pointers on where I can find the 
solution, I would VERY much appreciate it.



Thanks,

Oscar



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