Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 04:21:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with SCSI drives over sd9? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980531041801.10668M-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <35712F0A.58921DFD@tdx.co.uk>
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This is not directly related, but I keep having to yell at people to STOP USING C as a normal partition.. make some other partition the same size and use it instead, a, e, whatever, but not C C has voodoo involved and you may be relying on the voodoo without knowing it, then when we remove the voodoo, in a year or so, (or right now if you have DEVFS and -current) tehn things may break for you. julian On Sun, 31 May 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > > > > But my drives are NOT continuiously numbered. Currently I've got > > sd0,sd1,sd2,sd3 on one controler, and > > sd10,sd11,sd12,sd13,sd14,sd15,sd18 on another one. (the last digit > > matches the SCSI id). > > Mine are continuosly numbered... > > > All of sd1X was done with ``disklabel -Brw sd1X auto'' and all use the > > "c" partition. Although, last month most of the sd1X used the "e" > > partition (if any of this helps). > > Yes, this fails on my system - it works in the sense of no errors reported, > but I can't read the label back properly afterwards (my suspicion is it was > never written properly)... > > > What is your setup? > > I have 11 SCSI drives split accross 2 controllers (sounds familiar ;-) > > You say it works with 2.2-STABLE - have you done this with 3.0-CURRENT? > > I can post (by private mail) all the gory details, it comes to around 200 > lines (for dmesg, disklabel output, things I've done etc...) > > Regards, > > Karl > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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