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Date:      Wed, 7 Jan 1998 09:21:59 +0300 (GMT)
From:      Fernando Schapachnik <fpscha@ns1.sminter.com.ar>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Problem adding a hard disk
Message-ID:  <199801070621.JAA09665@ns1.sminter.com.ar>

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Hello:
	The situation is like this:

	I'm running FBSD 2.1.7.1 and nowadays I have the following disks:

[1003]ns3:/root>df -k
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0a       31775    14178    15055    48%    /
/dev/wd0s1f    889663   556207   262283    68%    /usr
/dev/wd0s1e     29727    14133    13216    52%    /var
procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
/dev/wd1s1e   1887023  1550325   185737    89%    /proxy
/dev/sd0s1e   4121543  2958938   832882    78%    /proxy2

	sd0 is:
(ahc0:0:0): "SEAGATE ST34371W 0484" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 4148MB (8496884 512 byte sectors)

	I bought another disk, exactly as sd0. When the systems boots, it shows:

ahc0 <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 10 on pci0:11
ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
ahc0 waiting for scsi devices to settle
(ahc0:0:0): "SEAGATE ST34371W 0484" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd0(ahc0:0:0): Direct-Access 4148MB (8496884 512 byte sectors)
(ahc0:1:0): "SEAGATE ST34371W 0484" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd1(ahc0:1:0): Direct-Access 4148MB (8496884 512 byte sectors)

	I followed the FAQ instructions in order to add it to the system: 
I've ran /stand/sysinstall and I was able to succesfully fdisk:

[1009]ns3:/var/log>fdisk /dev/sd0
******* Working on device /dev/sd0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=6659 heads=116 sectors/track=11 (1276 blks/cyl)

 Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=6659 heads=116 sectors/track=11 (1276 blks/cyl)

Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 0 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 0, size 8496884 (4148 Meg), flag 80
        beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0;
        end: cyl 1023/ sector 11/ head 115
The data for partition 1 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>

[1010]ns3:/var/log>fdisk /dev/sd1
******* Working on device /dev/sd1 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=6659 heads=116 sectors/track=11 (1276 blks/cyl)

 Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=6659 heads=116 sectors/track=11 (1276 blks/cyl)

Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 0 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 0, size 8496884 (4148 Meg), flag 80
        beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0;
        end: cyl 1023/ sector 11/ head 115
The data for partition 1 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>

	But I can't disklabel the disk.
This is sd0:
# /dev/sd0:
type: SCSI
disk: sd0s1
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 11
tracks/cylinder: 232
sectors/cylinder: 2552
cylinders: 3329
sectors/unit: 8496884
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  c:  8496884        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 3329*)
  e:  8496884        0    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0 - 3329*)

This is sd1:
disklabel -r /dev/sd1
# /dev/sd1:
type: SCSI
disk: sd1s1
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 11
tracks/cylinder: 116
sectors/cylinder: 1276
cylinders: 6659
sectors/unit: 8496884
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  c:  8496884        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 6658)


	When I try newfs:

[1039]ns3:/var/log>newfs /dev/sd1
newfs: /dev/sd1: not a character-special device
newfs: /dev/sd1: `1' partition is unavailable

	The disk is phisically fine (I DOS-formatted and it was usable).

	One of the messagesI got was:
Jan  6 09:04:03 ns3 /kernel: sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic

	Does any one know why I just can't put it to work, beeing this 
exactly the same disk as sd0?

	Thanks in advance for your help and time, and sorry for the tons 
of bytes in this mail, but I wanted to provide as much information as 
possible.

	Kind regards,


Fernando P. Schapachnik
S&M Internet



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