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Date:      Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:19:59 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Michael Powell <nightrecon@verizon.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1
Message-ID:  <20081004181923.N2683@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <gc7s7u$kba$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <D3314319D28D4C51B1D721DFFE21F942@mickey> <gc7s7u$kba$1@ger.gmane.org>

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>> I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16, but that
>> didn't help.
>>
>> Can anyone help me get this new disk installed without having to boot off
>> a recovery CD? The server is 500 miles away from me and I don't have
>> direct console access.
>>
>
> Uhmm... This may seem silly, but did you use fdisk to create a slice first
> before you tried partitioning?
>
this is NOT needed. actually i don't do it anywhere.

it just may be sysinstall problem, anything else.



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