From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 29 19:53:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA14085 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 19:53:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roguetrader.com (brandon@cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA14080 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 19:53:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA01261 for ; Fri, 29 Aug 1997 20:57:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 20:57:19 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Odd problems with a Conner SCSI drive.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to add a new drive to my system. The drive is a little unusual (its from a SUN workstation with a single integrated interface that has an adapter for the 50pin cables), but I seem to recall having one of the same drives on another FreeBSD system... The drive probes as: (ahc0:3:0): "CONNER CFP1060E SUN1.05 245C" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd1(ahc0:3:0): Direct-Access 1010MB (2070400 512 byte sectors) I've tried adding it with /stand/sysinstall, but all that does is when I try to 'W'rite the label it gives me a 'newfs: /usr3 Invalid Argument' or some such (going from memory). So, I go one step lower, I ran dd from /dev/zero to the drive with a 100 count (and later I did the whole drive, for the hell of it). Following this I did 'disklabel -Brw sd1 auto' and then simply 'disklabel -Brw sd1 auto'--per the Handbook Suggestions. ALL I change in the disklabel is I add a partition for the filesystem, using the label 'e'. However, when I try to save and quit it gives me the error: line 23: bad partition name (???) Following the man pages, 'e' is a perfectly valid partition name. I'm wondering if this has anything to do with the other disklabel information which say it only has 3 partitions--so I use 'd' instead, and it seems to work... Saving in disklabel gives the warning: Warning, unused partition d: size 2070400 offset 0 I'm also not sure if I'm supposed to change the 'type' to SCSI in disklabel, nor what should go in the 'disk', label and flags fields... -Brandon Gillespie --------------------------------------------- # /dev/rsd1c: type: unknown disk: label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 93 tracks/cylinder: 8 sectors/cylinder: 744 cylinders: 2782 sectors/unit: 2070400 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 3 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 2070400 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -2782*) d: 2070400 0 4.4BSD 1024 8192 ---------------------------------------------