From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 15:03:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E877106568A for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:03:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@lizardhill.com) Received: from kermit.lizardhill.com (kermit2.lizardhill.com [64.69.41.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B5D8FC08 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 15:03:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@lizardhill.com) Received: from ip72-193-84-190.lv.lv.cox.net ([72.193.84.190] helo=mickey) by kermit.lizardhill.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Kmrcz-000LRq-8V for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:04:05 -0700 From: "Don O'Neil" To: References: <20081005013016.GA71103@icarus.home.lan> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:03:46 -0700 Message-ID: <498C8B62AC3C4663A58D134BFE231685@mickey> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 In-Reply-To: <20081005013016.GA71103@icarus.home.lan> Thread-Index: AckmifY3dYFaHxuiSXqvatvCbgZIjgBOSdlQ Subject: RE: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:03:48 -0000 > I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to > label it and mount it... > > If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: > > bsdlabel: Geom not found > > If I run sysinstall, it tells me that it can't write to the disk. > > I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16, but that > didn't help. > > Can anyone help me get this new disk installed without having to boot > off a recovery CD? The server is 500 miles away from me and I don't > have direct console access. > Can you provide output from dmesg, as well as "geom disk list"? OK... I tried: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 bs=512 count=1000 dd: /dev/ad4: Operation not permitted # fdisk /dev/ad4 ******* Working on device /dev/ad4 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1938021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1938021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 1953525105 (953869 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 612/ head 15/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: Geometry output: Geom name: ad4 Providers: 1. Name: ad4 Mediasize: 1000204886016 (932G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 fwsectors: 63 fwheads: 16 Nothing exciting coming from dmesg.