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From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To: Simon Gao <gao@schrodinger.com>
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Subject: Re: Can't fdisk newly installed disks
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does anything else works.
like
dd if=/dev/disk of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1




On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Simon Gao wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am running into some problem with fdisk newly installed drives.
>
>> From boot message, these drives are found without problem:
>
> da3 at mpt0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0
> da3: <IFT A12U-G2421 347D> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> da3: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Tagged
> Queueing Enabled
> da3: 2048000MB (4194304000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261083C)
> da4 at mpt0 bus 0 target 2 lun 1
> da4: <IFT A12U-G2421 347D> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> da4: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Tagged
> Queueing Enabled
> da4: 2048000MB (4194304000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 261083C)
> da5 at mpt0 bus 0 target 2 lun 2
> da5: <IFT A12U-G2421 347D> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
> da5: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 127, 16bit), Tagged
> Queueing Enabled
> da5: 670790MB (1373777920 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 85513C)
>
> There are device files in /dev:
>
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  14 Aug 13 17:14 /dev/da3
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  15 Aug 13 17:14 /dev/da4
> crw-r-----  1 root  operator    4,  16 Aug 13 17:14 /dev/da5
>
>
> However, when trying to fdisk one of drives, I got following error:
>
> # fdisk -BI da5
> fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/da5: No such file or directory
>
> sysintall failed also.
>
> The system runs  FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Simon
>
>
>
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