Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 01:34:02 -0500 From: Ben Williams <benwilliams@instantemail.net> To: Pete <pete-freebsd-questions@toscano.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "amnesiac" is disklabel? Message-ID: <130175759368.20030203013402@instantemail.net> In-Reply-To: <20030202185020.GA2070@bubba.toscano.org> References: <20030202185020.GA2070@bubba.toscano.org>
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Sunday, February 2, 2003, 1:50:20 PM, you wrote: P> Hello... I have three hard drives in my system. One of them (the first) P> is the system disk. I'm trying to get the other two ready to be a P> mirrored volume. No matter which of the last two drives is last, that P> one always is listed as "amnesiac" when I do a disklabel on it: P> ============================== P> [root@archive 13:44:07 root]# disklabel ar2 P> # /dev/ar2: P> type: unknown P> disk: amnesiac P> label: fictitious P> flags: P> bytes/sector: 512 P> sectors/track: 63 P> tracks/cylinder: 255 P> sectors/cylinder: 16065 P> cylinders: 3737 P> sectors/unit: 60036417 P> rpm: 3600 P> interleave: 1 P> trackskew: 0 P> cylinderskew: 0 P> headswitch: 0 # milliseconds P> track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds P> drivedata: 0 P> 8 partitions: P> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] P> c: 60036417 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 3737*) P> ============================== P> What does this mean? Whichever drive is last, that's the one I cannot P> "disklabel -e" to set its fstype to "vinum". P> Thanks, P> pete Maybe I'm being obvious here but have you tried a different cable and/or controller? First step: eliminate hardware as the cause. -- Ben mailto:benwilliams@instantemail.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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