From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 11 02:44:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9968A16A4CE for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 02:44:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from a.mx.zettai.net (a.mx.zettai.net [207.58.154.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CF5E43D49 for ; Sat, 11 Dec 2004 02:44:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brad@zettai.net) Received: (qmail 44856 invoked by uid 89); 11 Dec 2004 02:44:27 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.0.8 ppid: 44847, pid: 44850, t: 0.4355s scanners: clamav: 0.80/m:28/d:625 spam: 3.0.1 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.4?) (brad@zettai.net@64.53.161.237) by 0 with SMTP; 11 Dec 2004 02:44:27 -0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.0.2006 Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 20:44:26 -0600 From: Brad Jahnke To: "f-q " Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.1 (2004-10-22) on beta.zettai.net X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.1 X-Spam-Level: Subject: Cannot Add 7th SATA disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 02:44:28 -0000 I am using FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p5 #1. I have 6 SATA hard drives installed, and a 7th disk recognized by the kernel but is not visible via sysinstall (i.e, ad16 does not appear in the lists when trying to Fdisk or Label) and nor am I able to add it manually via dd, fdisk, disklable, newfs, etc.. Any suggestions? ####The disks are not in RAID#### disk1 - ad4, 200GB, SATA, Maxtor disk2 - ad6, 200GB, SATA, Maxtor disk3 - ad8, 250GB, SATA, Maxtor disk4 - ad10, 250GB, SATA, Maxtor disk5 - ad12, 300GB, SATA, Maxtor - NEW - functioning fine disk6 - ad14, 300GB, SATA, Maxtor - NEW - functionin finer disk7 - ad16, 300GB, SATA, Maxtor - NEW - cannot fdisk, disklabel, mount I/O attachment (again no RAID) disk1,2 - HighPoint SATA 1520 disks 3,4,5,6 - HighPoint SATA 1640 disk 7 -either additional HighPoint SATA 1520 or on board SATA (Intel 865PERL) I swapped disk7 into ad14 and it works fine (thus new hard drive is operational) ####/var/log/messages entry related to ad...#### /kernel: ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device /kernel: ad4: 194481MB [395136/16/63] at ata2-master UDMA33 /kernel: ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device /kernel: ad6: 194481MB [395136/16/63] at ata3-master UDMA33 /kernel: ad8: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device /kernel: ad8: 239372MB [486344/16/63] at ata4-master UDMA33 /kernel: ad10: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device /kernel: ad10: 239372MB [486344/16/63] at ata5-master UDMA33 /kernel: ad12: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device /kernel: ad12: 286188MB [581463/16/63] at ata6-master UDMA33 /kernel: ad14: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device /kernel: ad14: 286188MB [581463/16/63] at ata7-master UDMA33 /kernel: ad16: DMA limited to UDMA33, non-ATA66 cable or device /kernel: ad16: 286188MB [581463/16/63] at ata8-master UDMA33 #####When attempting to complete the manual steps...#### dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rad16 bs=1k count=1 fdisk -BI ad16 disklabel -B -w -r ad16s1 auto disklabel -e ad16s1 mkdir -p /disk7stuff newfs /dev/ad16s1e mount -t ufs /dev/da1s1e /1 # Mount the partition(s) vi /etc/fstab # Add the appropriate entry/entries to your /etc/fstab. I cannot get past, disklabel -B -w -r ad16s1 auto ####Here is the typical session when I attempt the manual method...#### root@my_server # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rad16 bs=1k count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1024 bytes transferred in 0.000071 secs (14412642 bytes/sec) root@my_server # fdisk -BI ad16 fdisk: device /dev/ad16 is not character special fdisk: can't get disk parameters on /dev/ad16; supplying dummy ones ******* Working on device /dev/ad16 ******* root@my_server # fdisk -f /home/brad/ad16_121004.txt -itv ad16 fdisk: device /dev/ad16 is not character special fdisk: can't get disk parameters on /dev/ad16; supplying dummy ones ******* Working on device /dev/ad16 ******* fdisk: WARNING line 2: number of cylinders (36483) may be out-of-range (must be within 1-1024 for normal BIOS operation, unless the entire disk is dedicated to FreeBSD) parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1 heads=1 sectors/track=1 (1 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=36483 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Information from DOS bootblock is: 1: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 586099332 (286181 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 642/ head 254/ sector 63 2: 3: 4: root@my_server # cat /home/brad/ad16_121004.txt #fdsik configfiel for adding ad16 since it won't go via sysinstall g c36483 h255 s63 p 1 165 63 586099332 root@my_server # disklabel -B -w -r ad16s1 auto disklabel: /dev/ad16s1: No such file or directory