From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 30 15:50:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73AF237B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:50:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nollie.summersault.com (nollie.summersault.com [208.10.44.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E45A043E42 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 15:50:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@summersault.com) Received: (qmail 56194 invoked by uid 1002); 30 Aug 2002 22:50:37 -0000 Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:50:37 -0500 (EST) From: Mark Stosberg To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: need help adding 1024 bytes/sector SCSI drive Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I recently acquired a Seagate Cheetah 9.1 Gig SCSI drive. I'd like to use this to replace my straining 3 Gig drive I'm currently using with FreeBSD 4.6.2. Here's where I'm at so far: WHAT WORKS - During boot, the disk is correctly recognized as a 9.1 Gig drive located at da0. FROM THE try-to-slice-partition-and-label-it DEPT - Using /stand/sysinstall, the disk is identified as being half it's actual size, and when I try commit fdisk options with it, a segmentation fault occurs. - Using command line tools fails as well # disklabel -Brw da2 auto disklabel: /boot/boot2 too large (details for both these points are documented in a related PR): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=42217 FROM THE try-to-low-level-format-it DEPT Since I have no attachment to the current 1024 bytes/sector arrangement, I tried to low level format it to something that could cooperate better with FreeBSD. Neither of these commands appeared to change anything. "dmesg" still identifies the disk as 1024 bytes/sector: # camcontrol reformat da1 # camcontrol cmd -v -t 10800 -n da -u 1 -c "4 0 0 0 0 0" Any tips on how I can get over these humps and get this disk working? Thanks much, -mark http://mark.stosberg.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message