Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 09:38:00 -0500 (EST) From: Joshua Fielden <shaggy@thoroweb.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Wierd happenings with "shared" IDE drives... Message-ID: <XFMail.971208095140.shaggy@thoroweb.com>
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This weekend, I finally re-installed BSD on my home system.The boot drive is a 1.6g EIDE drive. I also have an adaptec 2920 with two FAT32 drives, and one drive I will set up for BSD. The main drive is partitioned 500mb FAT16, ~1.1g BSD. In that partition, I have /, /var, /usr, and swap. During the course of a normal reboot, I came up with "automatic filesystem check failed-HELP!", and what caused it is that /dev/wd0s2(b|e|f) had disappeared. /dev/rwd... are all there, so I could fsck to my heart's content, but couldn't remake the devices, because MAKEDEV would return "chown: not found" and exit. I will put together a floppy today that should fix this, but my concern is this is the nth time this has happened to me, and all with "shared" ide drives. I've searched the lists, and can't find anything about this, nor in any of the docs I perused. I use DOS fdisk, do _not_ enable "support for large volumes" or whatever the option is for FAT32 fs, and as a quirk from watching Macs blow up daily at FWB, always low-level format any drive before repartitioning. Does anyone have any advice as to how to stop this, or is this something that only I am seeing? BTW: this has happened with BSD: 2.1.5, 2.2, 2.2.2, 2.2.5, and 3.0(various) on three machines. --- E-Mail: Joshua Fielden <shaggy@thoroweb.com>
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