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To: Eric Sabban <eric@clickrebates.com>
From: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
Subject: Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks
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Interesting point... these ARE new drives that were put in today.

I presume you mean to use the BIOS scsi utility?

_F


At 06:16 PM 3/22/00 -0800, Eric Sabban wrote:
>Try low-levelling the drives. The behavior sounds similar to what I had a 
>long time ago, low level formatting them fixed the problem.
>
>-eric
>
>Forrest Aldrich wrote:
>
> > Since this is a fairly current issue, I'm posting this appropriately.
> >
> > I have a DELL server that has hooked up to it a PowerVault, with 8 36gb 
> 10krpm LVD drives.   The system has recognized these previously and dmesg 
> shows them present; however, /stand/sysinstall says that I don't have ANY 
> disks installed when using Label or Fdisk.
> >
> > Is this a known bug?   I've done a buildworld/installworld yesterday 
> after a cvsup.
> >
> > TIA.
> >
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