From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Aug 18 15:28:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from www.musicman.com (musicman.com [139.171.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7680C37B40C for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 15:28:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from johng@musicman.com) Received: from localhost (johng@localhost) by www.musicman.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA99640 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:28:53 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from johng@musicman.com) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:28:53 -0400 (EDT) From: john To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Drive Configuration Problem Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Help! I tried to use sysinstall to partition and label a RAID 1 drive (adaptec, scsi), and sysinstall would not let me write out the partitions. The error message was "device not configured". I don't know what to do to "configure" this drive. The output from newfs and fdisk are given below. This computer is booting from a third IDE drive, FreeBSD 4.2. Thanks to anyone who knows John newfs da0 newfs: da0: `0' partition is unavailable newfs da0s1a newfs: da0s1a: `a' partition is unavailable ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=5219 heads=227 sectors/track=33 (7491 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=5219 heads=227 sectors/track=33 (7491 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 39100416 (19092 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 33/ head 226 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: newfs da0 newfs: da0: `0' partition is unavailable newfs da0s1a newfs: da0s1a: `a' partition is unavailable ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=5219 heads=227 sectors/track=33 (7491 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=5219 heads=227 sectors/track=33 (7491 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 39100416 (19092 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 1023/ sector 33/ head 226 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message