From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 24 23:30:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA14457 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 23:30:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA14399 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 1998 23:29:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA15348; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:58:21 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id RAA18432; Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:57:43 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981225175743.W12346@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:57:43 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Chad David , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: > 8 Gig File System References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Chad David on Thu, Dec 24, 1998 at 05:28:46PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 24 December 1998 at 17:28:46 -0700, Chad David wrote: > > I recently installed 2 10Gig IDE disks into a 3.0 current > (Dec 21) machine. I was able to create a full sized slice, > but if I try to create a filesystem greater then 8000M I get > the following error: > > Dec 24 17:15:20 colnta /kernel: wd1s1e: hard error writing fsbn 19999664 (wd1s1 bn 19999664; cn 19840 tn 14 sn 62) (status 51 error 10) > > If I create an 8000M filesystem, and then try and create another fs > with the remaining 2Gig I get the same error: > > Dec 24 17:18:45 colnta /kernel: wd1s1f: hard error writing fsbn 3615664 (wd1s1 bn 19999664; cn 19840 tn 14 sn 62) (status 51 error 10) Both of these messages are saying that they can't find block number 19999664, which would be about 40 GB from the beginning of the disk, far beyond than your stated size of 8 GB. It suggests to me that you have somehow messed up the partition table (since the second one suggests that your partition offset is reasonable). > I have tried creating a normal slice and a "dangerously dedicated" slice, > with the same results. > > This is a problem now because I know have 8Gig of unusable disk across > 4 IDE drives... that is starting to be a lot! > > I am doing this via sysinstall (the newest from > /usr/src/release/sysinstall) so could that be causing a problem?? > > Any help or indication of what stupid thing I am doing wrong would > be great. I am from an AIX background, so obviously a lot of this > is new to me... is vinum possibly an answer to my questions? I'd suggest that you install one disk whichever way you can, and then show the output of fdisk wd0 disklabel wd0 fdisk wd1 disklabel wd1 fdisk wd2 disklabel wd2 fdisk wd3 disklabel wd3 If you prefer, you can copy down what the sysinstall partition editor and label editor show, but make sure you get it *exactly* right. If they're all the same, of course, you only need to write it down one time. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message