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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 11:14:42 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Tom Jackson <toj@gorillanet.gorilla.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: devfs/slice problem
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980519111344.20170C-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980518231348.56058@TOJ.org>

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devfs/slice has not been ported to CAM yet..
I have mods to da.c that do SLICE stuff but I don't have a CAM
system to test it on.

On Mon, 18 May 1998, Tom Jackson wrote:

> I found out the problem. Just after trying the new CAM snap I noticed
> that procmail stopped working. I tracked that down to /dev/null being
> writeable only by root; remade and it worked. Tonight noticed that
> sound was no longer working; remade snd and it began working. On a hunch
> remade sd1 <G>; fdisk sd1 began working. Not really sure how my device
> drivers got corrupted but they did. MAKEDEV all!!
> 
> Still there is the condition of partitions extending past end of slice,
> seem to remember a warning to not disklabel etc when running devfs/slice.
> Also noticed that my Syquest will not release a cartridge after it has
> been mounted. Will mount and unmount, just not release it from the drive.
> I guess this relates to what Julian was saying about floppy problem. On
> the CAM front, running smp I was getting failures in 'make world'??
> 
> Happy hunting,
> 
> On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 05:49:57PM -0500, Tom Jackson wrote:
> > 
> > Since devfs/slice had been added to LINT I adopted it to all
> > my boxes. No problem on two with single disk, dangerously
> > dedicated. On the the main server box, disklabel says all disk
> > end partition and 'c' partition extend past end of disk. 
> > 
> > When I tried to use sysinstall to change the slice settings on 
> > a brand new disk, it hung, sorry I didn't get debug messages. I
> > won't go into the file system corruption I got on unrelated fs's
> > ( first time ever with FreeBSD ) but the new disk now is not seen
> > by /stand/sysinstall. Also fdisk can't find the slices either and
> > says it is using dummy parameters 1/1/1 and then it hangs.
> > 
> > I've got the corrupted file systems back by dumping devfs/slice
> > on the server and using /stand/sysinstall to delete, bring back
> > and newfs the file systems.
> > 
> > BIG question is how do I get fdisk to work with the new disk and
> > thus, let me use /stand/sysinstall to set the slice settings. The
> > weird thing is msdos lets me put a dos slice on this disk, no problem,
> > pfdisk shows the slices, no problem, and a boot floppy picks up the
> > disk to allow me to set the slices. 
> > 
> > I'm holding off dedicating anything to this disk until I can get it
> > to look normal to fdisk.
> > 
> > Thanks for FreeBSD,
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Tom
> > 
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> Tom
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