Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:49:07 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> Cc: hartzell@alerce.com, freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1 Message-ID: <AANLkTi=fYtMYLeWgM8JZdECbv8EfkVSQcoSeFyLsOGXK@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C6835B9.7000900@nagual.nl> References: <4C669668.5040906@nagual.nl> <19558.60756.860555.968721@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <4C66F542.6090501@nagual.nl> <19559.15997.480750.380264@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <4C6835B9.7000900@nagual.nl>
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On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> wrote: > I learned a lot from the scripts. ;-) The drives work wonderful as a > gmirror now. > My 500Gb drives won't however. they keep on giving cg); bad magic number. > Sysinstall won't newfs the drives. newfs -U /dev/gm1a (created with the > script mentioned before does not work OK either. Always this unexplained > message (cg0: bad magic number). I have NO CLUE whatsoever what can be the > cause of this. Both drives can be formatted by Windows, Linux and lots of > other utilities. They can not be formatted UFS2 for / by FreeBSD-8.1/amd64 > > I would love to get some feedback about possible causes and/or solutions. > right now those two 500Gb drives are useless. Spining around for no good. > ;-) You can try to get your system up and running using something like http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ or pcbsd. If that works, then I guess the possible cause is you. :-) -- Adam Vande More
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