From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 16:09:02 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 B86F010656AC for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:09:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB9B8FC16 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:09:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id m96G78Ov070818; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:07:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id m96G781G070817; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:07:08 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:07:08 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister To: "Don O'Neil" Message-ID: <20081006160708.GA70792@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <20081005013016.GA71103@icarus.home.lan> <498C8B62AC3C4663A58D134BFE231685@mickey> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <498C8B62AC3C4663A58D134BFE231685@mickey> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 16:09:02 -0000 On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:03:46AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > > 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: > OK. That looks pretty normal. Did you try doing an: fdisk -I ad4 or maybe fdisk -BI ad4 It takes that to get fdisk to initialize the disk. (the -B puts the master boot block there. Just doing an fdisk ad4 only had fdisk read out stuff and there isn't anything there yet to read - so of course it is invalid. ////jerry > > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"