From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed May 15 13:38:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from search.sparks.net (d-207-5-180-136.gwi.net [207.5.180.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D615337B40F for ; Wed, 15 May 2002 13:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by search.sparks.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 12528D983; Wed, 15 May 2002 16:32:28 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by search.sparks.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F09A3D982; Wed, 15 May 2002 16:32:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 16:32:27 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adaptec 3200S + Dell 2100S problems In-Reply-To: <200205151856.g4FIum993819@aslan.scsiguy.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 15 May 2002, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >On Wed, 15 May 2002, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > >> >but disklabel doesn't want to work: > >> > > >> >bash-2.05a# disklabel -e -r da0 > >> >disklabel: bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) > >> > >> disklabel -e only works if there is a pre-existing label on the drives. > >> Try disklabel -w -r da0 auto followed by disklabel -e -r da0. > > > >bash-2.05a# disklabel -w -r da0 > > You forgot "auto" at the end. That wasn't very clever of me, now was it? :( The problem appears to be solved; apparently there was an intermittently bad disk that was not letting the boot block get updated. When I configured that one out of the array things started working. Sorry to be a nuisance; I should have seen that before posting in the first place. --- David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message