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Date:      Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:52:28 -0700
From:      Simon Gao <gao@schrodinger.com>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't fdisk newly installed disks
Message-ID:  <46C1F9EC.9060700@schrodinger.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070814093247.T11873@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
References:  <46C0F96C.3060600@schrodinger.com> <20070814093247.T11873@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> does anything else works.
> like
> dd if=/dev/disk of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1
>
>
>
Yes.

# dd if=/dev/da5 of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1048576 bytes transferred in 0.155479 secs (6744167 bytes/sec)


>
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Simon Gao wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am running into some problem with fdisk newly installed drives.
>>
>>> From boot message, these drives are found without problem:
>>
>> da3 at mpt0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
>> da3: <IFT A12U-G2421 347D> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
>> da3: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Tagged
>> Queueing Enabled
>> da3: 2048000MB (4194304000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261083C)
>> da4 at mpt0 bus 0 target 2 lun 1
>> da4: <IFT A12U-G2421 347D> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
>> da4: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Tagged
>> Queueing Enabled
>> da4: 2048000MB (4194304000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261083C)
>> da5 at mpt0 bus 0 target 2 lun 2
>> da5: <IFT A12U-G2421 347D> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
>> da5: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Tagged
>> Queueing Enabled
>> da5: 670790MB (1373777920 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 85513C)
>>
>> There are device files in /dev:
>>
>> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  14 Aug 13 17:14 /dev/da3
>> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  15 Aug 13 17:14 /dev/da4
>> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  16 Aug 13 17:14 /dev/da5
>>
>>
>> However, when trying to fdisk one of drives, I got following error:
>>
>> # fdisk -BI da5
>> fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/da5: No such file or directory
>>
>> sysintall failed also.
>>
>> The system runs  FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>>
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