Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:35:12 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: phk@phk.freebsd.dk Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Simply impossible to format disk under current. Message-ID: <15955.49232.993137.610963@canoe.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <73879.1045675694@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <15955.44050.529506.835464@canoe.velocet.net> <73879.1045675694@critter.freebsd.dk>
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>>>>> "phk" == phk <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> writes: phk> /dev/da2 is always writable unless you have any of the partitions phk> open. The error was that /dev/da2 didn't exist. I was confused too. fdisk da2 # worked, displyed one slice (3) that was NetBSD fdisk -I da2 # error, /dev/da2 doesn't exist ... it seemed like anything that wrote to da2 would fail, but read worked. phk> I guess you have whacked the disk now, so I won't be able to get phk> any debugging information. In the process of determining that it worked with 4.7-RELEASE I did format the disk, so I'm not sure that the disk itself is useful. phk> In case of disk/GEOM related problems, I need the output from phk> dmesg sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml or I won't really be able to do phk> debugging... I would bet that any NetBSD root disk installed by the NetBSD installer would exhibit the same problems. It should be easy to duplicate. I don't have a spare disk handy right now... but I might be able to do this in a week or two. I would expect that you can do this on your bench, tho. There wasn't anything special about the NetBSD disks ... they had just been formatted through the install process that NetBSD does. 1.5.2, I think. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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