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Date:      Thu, 30 Jul 1998 14:25:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jim Van Baalen <vansax@mail.websidestory.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't Newfs Disk
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.96.980730140148.21747F-100000@mail.websidestory.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807291559070.24795-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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Perhaps I am making progress. I followed the procedures in

http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/

Upon completion of section 2.2 step 9 I receive the response

"Wrote FDISK partion infomation out successfully."

Simulteneously

Jul 30 14:00:58 spare /kernel: sd1(ncr0:2:0): Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE asc:3,0 Peripheral device write fault field replaceable unit: 4 sks:80,e3
Jul 30 14:01:00 spare /kernel: sd1(ncr0:2:0): Deferred Error: HARDWARE FAILURE asc:3,0 Peripheral device write fault field replaceable unit: 4 sks:80,e3

was written to /var/log/messages. Thus, I assume that the response from
/stand/sysinstall was inaccurate. Does this imply a hardware problem 
(ie. the disk is bad)?

Jim

On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Doug White wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Jim Van Baalen wrote:
> 
> > I have just added a second disk to a machine and I can't newfs a
> > filesystem on this disk. I have been through this process several
> > times in the last week on different machines and have not had this
> > problem. The machine is running 2.2.6-RELEASE. It sees the second 
> > disk at boot time
> > 
> > Jul 28 13:49:07 host2 /kernel: sd1(ahc0:2:0): Direct-Access 4340MB (8888924 512 byte sectors)
> > 
> > It seems to accept a disklabel. I added 
> > 
> > st34572w|Seagate ST34572W SCSI: \
> >         :dt=SCSI:ty=winchester:se#512:nt#8:ns#176:nc#6300: \
> >         :pc#8870400:oc#0:
> > 
> > to /etc/disktab.
> > 
> > disklabel -r -w sd1 st34572w
> 
> Um, you just overwote your slice table.  You should have said
> 
> disklabel -r -w sd1s4 st .... 
> 
> > returns no errors, but newfs fails.
> > 
> > newfs -N /dev/rsd1c
> > newfs: ioctl (GDINFO): Invalid argument
> > newfs: /dev/rsd1c: can't read disk label; disk type must be specified
> 
> Try /dev/rsd1s4c instead.
> 
> > The data for partition 4 is:
> > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
> >     start 1, size 8870399 (4331 Meg), flag 80
> >         beg: cyl 0/ sector 2/ head 0;
> >         end: cyl 155/ sector 48/ head 7
> 
> This is fudged, but the entire slice table is fubar'd.  :(  I don't know
> if you'll be able to reboot your system until you fix the fdisk damage you
> caused with disklabel (unless this is a Dangerously Dedicated disk).
> 
> See http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/.
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 


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