Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:16:24 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Bob Collins <freebsd@anything-inc.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too Message-ID: <20031118034624.GH32042@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20031114105727.00a9d6d8@anything-inc.com> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20031114105727.00a9d6d8@anything-inc.com>
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--z5HJNHpVrs9F5Roc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 14 November 2003 at 11:50:09 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: > Running FBSD 4.9 on an Intel SMP mobo w/ 2 Intel PII 350s. Onboard SCSI is > recognized and sees all my drives. One SCSI 3 drive is 4.5G for the OS and > /usr. I have 4 identical IBM SCSI3 disks 9G each, however one of those 4 > will not disklabel. The other three will. This leads to troubles then, > obviously, to setting the 4 drives for vinum use. Was using these 4 drives > on 5.0-RELEASE with vinum previously no troubles....downgraded for some > backup software (bacula) compatibility reasons. > > In dmesg, da1, da2, da3, da4 all show as identical drives, model number, > capacity, etc. I have not removed the drive to see if there is a special > jumper to protect such things, I shall do this later today. > > When I try to `disklabel -e da4', I get the info open, I can change > whatever I like, then when I save the file it complains; that the device > does not support this feature. The other 3 drives all did `disklabel -e > dax' with no trouble. Do you have device nodes for da4? Has it been labelled at all? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --z5HJNHpVrs9F5Roc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/uZYQIubykFB6QiMRAp7lAJ9/4/prdWBFsS5tBPjJF/B9lhacMgCeIGkD pcW/ad63wKQV50kPzxEVcow= =acXY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z5HJNHpVrs9F5Roc--
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