From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 17 11:52:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03181 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:52:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03163 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:52:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA03933; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdUd3926; Thu Sep 17 18:50:27 1998 Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 11:50:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Ben Pepa cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newfs'ing a new disk In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980917073055.00a4c250@msn.bc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG you MUST use the raw device newfs /dev/rsd0s1a ^ On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Ben Pepa wrote: > Hi; > > I have been trying to get my two 9GB Seagate Barracuda (ST19171W) drives to > work with FreeBSD with no success. I first fdisk'ed them and made a > FreeBSD slice. But, when I go to Disklabel, and label each partition (/, > /usr, /var, and swap) and write changes, it says it is newfs'ing my disk > for /dev/sd0s1a and then sysinstall dies and gives me this message: > > panic: ufs_lock: recursive lock not expected, pid 276 > syncing disks... 7 6 Done > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key to abort > > -- > I have tried almost everything to get this to work. It is a Ultra SCSI > Wide drive and runs from a Adaptec AH-2940UW. I have never had this happen > before with FreeBSD. > > > Thanks for any help you can give! > Ben > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message