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From: Eric Sabban <eric@clickrebates.com>
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To: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>
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Subject: Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks
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Yep.

-eric

Forrest Aldrich wrote:

> 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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