Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 23:11:02 -0500 From: Pete <pete-freebsd-questions@toscano.org> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "amnesiac" is disklabel? Message-ID: <20030211041102.GC19750@bubba.toscano.org> In-Reply-To: <20030204023044.GA4014@bubba.toscano.org> References: <20030202185020.GA2070@bubba.toscano.org> <20030203053730.GI11468@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030204023044.GA4014@bubba.toscano.org>
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So it seems that there's a problem with more than two /dev/ar devices, or at least more than two Promise-based /dev/ar devices. Does anyone know more about this or should I take this to freebsd-hackers? Thanks, pete On Mon, 03 Feb 2003, Pete wrote: > On Mon, 03 Feb 2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > On Sunday, 2 February 2003 at 13:50:20 -0500, Pete wrote: > > > ============================== > > > [root@archive 13:44:07 root]# disklabel ar2 > > > # /dev/ar2: > [snip] > > > bytes/sector: 512 > > > sectors/track: 63 > > > tracks/cylinder: 255 > > > sectors/cylinder: 16065 > > > cylinders: 3737 > > > sectors/unit: 60036417 > [snip] > > The only valid information above this point are the geometry > > specifications, and even they are not very valid. > > Just a further datapoint... /dev/ar1 and /dev/ar2 are the same disk make > and model. disklabel on /dev/ar1 shows one less cylinder (3736) and a > corresponding lower number of sectors/unit (60034842). > > > > What does this mean? Whichever drive is last, that's the one I cannot > > > "disklabel -e" to set its fstype to "vinum". > > > > There must be some other reason for that. Do you have any disk label > > at all? > > Yes, it does. I can even mount /dev/ar2e because I had created a disk > label on it when it was attached as /dev/ar1 previously. > > The problem seems to be accessing /dev/ar2 with disklabel. I've swapped > cables and cards. I'm even currently using two cards (one ATA100 and > ATA133). I've swapped the drives all around and the only constant > factor seems to be ar2. With all three drives on one card (two master > and one slave) or spread between the two cards (all three masters), as > long as there were three drives, /dev/ar2 would be like this. > > Is the ar driver only limited to two devices? > > Thanks, > pete To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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