From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 16 12:59:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dirty.research.bell-labs.com (dirty.research.bell-labs.com [204.178.16.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 78A6E37B419; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 12:59:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from grubby.research.bell-labs.com ([135.104.2.9]) by dirty; Fri Nov 16 15:59:39 EST 2001 Received: from aura.research.bell-labs.com (aura.research.bell-labs.com [135.104.46.10]) by grubby.research.bell-labs.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAGKwso56051; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:58:54 -0500 (EST) Received: from research.bell-labs.com (IDENT:sandeepj@sandeepj-pcmh.research.bell-labs.com [135.104.47.90]) by aura.research.bell-labs.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA02954; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:58:53 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3BF57E0D.A75252E6@research.bell-labs.com> Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:58:53 -0500 From: Sandeep Joshi X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Tracking down "BTX halted" References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin wrote: > > > SUMMARY: > > The boot disk (ad0 in attachment) is not the problem. > > There are two other IBM SCSI disks attached to two Adaptec cards. > > Its these other two SCSI disks-da0,da1 which are empty and > > whose disklabels I played with. These cause a BTX error if > > they are plugged in during a boot. > > Were these disks ever formatted with dangerously dedicated mode. If so, you > would need to re-fdisk them to get the bogus fdisk table out of the way. > dd'ing zeros over the table is one way of doing this, although you will still > need to fdisk afterwards. They had a vinum partition but cant recall if they were dedicated. I had dd'ed zeroes all over but had forgotten fdisk! Yes, it works now :-) thanks again -Sandeep > > -- > > John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message