From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 17:47:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886F016A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:47:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail2.leitch.com (mail2.leitch.com [204.187.61.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14A8643D58 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:46:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Xi.Liu@Leitch.com) Received: from pelican.mars.leitch.com (pelican.mars.leitch.com [192.168.233.15]) by mail2.leitch.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j1FHksBN020803 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:46:55 -0500 (EST) Received: by pelican.mars.leitch.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id <1TYH21XR>; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:47:20 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Xi.Liu" To: "'freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org'" Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:47:13 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Subject: Can not create slice on a SATA drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:47:00 -0000 Hullo, I have Dell power edge S420 with only one SATA harddrive running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE for AMD64 platform and the system is running fine. The hardrive right now has the following partitions: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Disk name: ad4 Disk name: ad4 FDISK Partition Editor DISK Geometry: 9726 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 156248190 sectors (76293MB) Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 12 unused 0 63 112392 112454 ad4s1 7 fat 6 112455 16579080 16691534 ad4s2 8 freebsd 165 16691535 139558465 156249999 - 12 unused 0 I am trying to create a slice to use the all the rest unused disk space, but some how I can save the changes using "sysinstall" (see error messages below) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- DISK Geometry: 9726 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 156248190 sectors (76293MB) Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 12 unused 0 63 112392 112454 ad4s1 7 fat 6 = 112455 16579080 16691534 ad4s2 8 freebsd 165 = 16691535 139556655 156248189 ad4s3 8 freebsd 165 = 156248190 1810 156249999 - 12 unused 0 ????????????????? Message ?????????????????? ??ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad4! ?k ????????????????????????????????????(100%)???x ?? [ OK ] ?j ??????????[ Press enter or space ]?????????? Does anyone know why and how to fix it? The only thing is that I was not running "sysinstall" from the a local console, but from remote telnet window as root. Do I have to run sysinstall from local console? Thanks Xi