Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 15:58:53 -0500 From: Sandeep Joshi <sandeepj@research.bell-labs.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Tracking down "BTX halted" Message-ID: <3BF57E0D.A75252E6@research.bell-labs.com> References: <XFMail.011116124729.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< 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
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