Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 13:26:21 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu> To: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding a new drive .. Message-ID: <Pine.VUL.3.91.960316131424.27929A-100000@tahoma.cwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199603151607.DAA25382@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>
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When you say it collapses with an I/O error, do you mean that the system panics? What are the errors you are seeing? I had a problem with a 4gb disk when I was trying to use 3 or 4 slices; the installation would crash with an 'init died' message and SCSI errors, followed by a panic. This with 2.1-R and the 2.2-960130-SNAP. When I put my partitions in two slices it worked fine. Ultimately though I just went ahead and used 'dangerously dedicated' mode on the disk which works for me but comes with enough caveats to impress even the surgeon general! If it does look like the same problem, you probably want two slices - the first one 32M to contain a single 32M partition for /. Then the second slice could be the rest of the disk and contain partitions for swap, /usr, /usr/local, /usr/users, and so on as you please. Hope this helps, -c On Sat, 16 Mar 1996, michael butler wrote: > After the tragedies of last week, I thought it best to ask here .. there is > an apparent bug lurking .. > > I have a shiny new 4 gig Quantum Atlas (XP34300). I want to add it to a > -stable system which already has two other SCSI devices. Having been through > the exercise of recovering a clobbered partition table (courtesy of a nasty > bug in the 2.1R install disk :-(), I now find that when I try to set up a > partition table on another machine (with no other attached drives :-)), it > refuses to write the partition table .. it collapses with an I/O error. > > I've formatted the drive twice and verified it. I've used a DOS disk to > install a dummy partition table with no problem yet the BSD install disk > hangs with the HD light on. The 2.0.5 installation disk does the same thing. > > Is this (possibly) related to the fact that the SCSI controller is an > Adaptec 1542 or is something else wrong ? I currently have a pricey > door-stop :-( > > michael >
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