Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 20:20:38 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Please test GEOM in -current... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203282019280.35752-100000@beppo> In-Reply-To: <65047.1017300228@critter.freebsd.dk>
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It probably is right. The one system that I really had wanted to check this on was an XP1000 that was connected to my VERITAS fabric with lots of Sun labelled disks. Unfortunately, ATA chip for this system seems to be causing grief for Soren's latest code, so I can't get booted. C'est la vie- sorry..... -matt On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <Pine.BSF.4.21.0203271727580.24847-100000@beppo>, Matthew Jacob writ > es: > > >> I belive that alpha BSD disklabels are now correctly handled in > >> GEOM and would therefore appreciate if somebody could enable the > >> GEOM option in a current kernel and tell me if I am right or not. > >> > >> Further more, if somebody could try to swap disks between an alpha > >> and an i386 and tell me if the both recognize the "alien" disklabels > >> when GEOM is enabled, that would be doubly nice. > >> > >> In fact, for ultimate h0h0 effect, you can try to stick a disk > >> from a solaris machine into your alpha: it should recognize > >> the partitioning on that as well. > >> > > > >It's all quite verbose, so it's a bit hard to figure out what's what for > >Alpha. Also, it *appeared* to blow up in my face on a system that had an IDE > >drive as the root device- but I'm trying to ascertain whether that was really > >the case right now. > > > >That system was also the one on the same fabric as Solaris labelled disks.... > > It doesn't look entirely wrong to me. I can see that there may be > some issue with the cd0, it should probably be more graceful about > not finding a disk there. > > You need to make sure that you have a post-cleanup newfs or GEOM+md+newfs > will not play. > > I also fixed a buglet in the alpha-disklabel code yesterday, I can't > tell if you have that fix or not in your kernel. > > Other than that it seems pretty ok to me. Sorry about the verboseness, > it will be reduced. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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