From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 3 18:30:53 2003 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 D95FE37B401; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:30:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from toscano.org (ip68-100-184-64.nv.nv.cox.net [68.100.184.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0785D43F9B; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 18:30:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pete@toscano.org) Received: from bubba.toscano.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by toscano.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h142Uj1a004296; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 21:30:45 -0500 Received: (from pete@localhost) by bubba.toscano.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id h142UiLw004294; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 21:30:44 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 21:30:44 -0500 From: Pete To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "amnesiac" is disklabel? Message-ID: <20030204023044.GA4014@bubba.toscano.org> Mail-Followup-To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030202185020.GA2070@bubba.toscano.org> <20030203053730.GI11468@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030203053730.GI11468@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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