From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 11 18:11:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.on.home.com (ha1.rdc2.on.home.com [24.9.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 246FE14D3E for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:11:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from street@iname.com) Received: from mired.eh.local ([24.66.100.55]) by mail.rdc2.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <19990812010933.ZENA12218.mail.rdc2.on.home.com@mired.eh.local>; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:09:33 -0700 Received: (from kws@localhost) by mired.eh.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA00530; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 21:09:33 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kws) To: Soren Schmidt Cc: geoffr@is.co.za, brian@pobox.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA - Trouble mounting secondary master References: <199908110653.IAA56765@freebsd.dk> <87hfm5vovk.fsf@mired.eh.local> From: Kevin Street Date: 11 Aug 1999 21:09:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: Kevin Street's message of "11 Aug 1999 20:11:59 -0400" Message-ID: <87yafhn6sz.fsf@mired.eh.local> Lines: 28 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Street writes: > Soren Schmidt writes: > > Hmm, damn, after the problem went away for Geoff I thought it to be > > solved since I've never heard of it anywhere else, and I cant reproduce > > it here no matter what I try. > > Does it help eany if you only has the root partition use the wd dev > > and have the rest use the prober ad dev entries ?? It could be some > > artifact from this... > > I tried with the ad dev entries for my problem as well with no > improvement. I've also tried using: > dd if=/dev/ad0s6 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1 > as the first access to one of the failing drives (ad0). > The first dd fails with device not configured, but any subsequent > access works fine. It seems it's left in an odd state by the driver > start up, but all it takes is a read to get it sorted out again. More on this. I just booted with -v and now when I do the first dd I see: ad0: invalid primary partition table: no magic and the same on ad2 when the swapon fails. So how do I get the magic back into my relationship with my drives? -- Kevin Street street@iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message