From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 2 22:35:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FFB37B401 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 22:35:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from flatiron.instantemail.net (naturalcom-gw.avl.rocketlauncher.net [209.95.78.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 668BF43F85 for ; Sun, 2 Feb 2003 22:35:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from benwilliams@instantemail.net) Received: from reliable-2000 (flatiron.instantemail.net [209.95.72.149]) by flatiron.instantemail.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id GAA88699; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 06:33:59 GMT Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 01:34:02 -0500 From: Ben Williams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.61) Personal Reply-To: Ben Williams X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <130175759368.20030203013402@instantemail.net> To: Pete Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "amnesiac" is disklabel? In-Reply-To: <20030202185020.GA2070@bubba.toscano.org> References: <20030202185020.GA2070@bubba.toscano.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sunday, February 2, 2003, 1:50:20 PM, you wrote: P> Hello... I have three hard drives in my system. One of them (the first) P> is the system disk. I'm trying to get the other two ready to be a P> mirrored volume. No matter which of the last two drives is last, that P> one always is listed as "amnesiac" when I do a disklabel on it: P> ============================== P> [root@archive 13:44:07 root]# disklabel ar2 P> # /dev/ar2: P> type: unknown P> disk: amnesiac P> label: fictitious P> flags: P> bytes/sector: 512 P> sectors/track: 63 P> tracks/cylinder: 255 P> sectors/cylinder: 16065 P> cylinders: 3737 P> sectors/unit: 60036417 P> rpm: 3600 P> interleave: 1 P> trackskew: 0 P> cylinderskew: 0 P> headswitch: 0 # milliseconds P> track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds P> drivedata: 0 P> 8 partitions: P> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] P> c: 60036417 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 3737*) P> ============================== P> What does this mean? Whichever drive is last, that's the one I cannot P> "disklabel -e" to set its fstype to "vinum". P> Thanks, P> pete Maybe I'm being obvious here but have you tried a different cable and/or controller? First step: eliminate hardware as the cause. -- Ben mailto:benwilliams@instantemail.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message