From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 28 16:04:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA21412 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:04:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from hod.tera.com ([206.215.142.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA21386 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:03:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from athena.tera.com (athena.tera.com [206.215.142.62]) by hod.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA01499 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:03:10 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline Received: (from kline@localhost) by athena.tera.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA20554 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:03:09 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199701290003.QAA20554@athena.tera.com> Subject: Returned mail: mail.zit.th-darmstadt.de. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) (fwd) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions Mailgroup) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:03:09 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL23 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ----- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem ----- Re: IBM drive. NOTE that this has bounced 17 times to Greg Lemis, mailed directly.... Hopefully it will work via the list. --gdk. I'm lost. I've been trying to get this bloody thing installed for a few weeks, and not getting much closer. But with help from the mailing list, and continued trying... (?) Hopefully. As I see it, there are two issues, prob'ly tightly coupled. The first is the size of the slice/partition; the second is the error messages. Mike Murphy (mrm@mole.org) said that the 1423360 is incorrect. He multiplied out 4*91*3875 to get 1410500. He suggested this disktab entry that I tried that seemed to work with sd1a: #mrm ibm3720|IBM 720MB SCSI:\ #mrm :dt=SCSI:ty=winchester:se#512:nt#4:ns#91:nc#3875:rm#4500: \ #mrm :pa#1410500:oa#0:tc=4.2BSD:bc#8192:fc#1024: \ #mrm :pc#1410500:oc#0: \ #mrm :pd#1410500:od#0: (Mike suggested using sd1a rather than sd1c... ) I did a disklabel -r -w sd1 ibm3720 followed by a newfs sd1a and after newfs created the filesystem, the drive mounted on /mnt, no problem. ---But upon rebooting, the same errors were printed out. fdc0: input ready timeout fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-19 (No status) sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic sd1: raw partition size != slice size sd1: start 0, end 1423359, size 1423360 sd1c: start 0, end 1410499, size 1410500 sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic sd1: raw partition size != slice size sd1: start 0, end 1423359, size 1423360 sd1c: start 0, end 1410499, size 1410500 sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic sd1: raw partition size != slice size sd1: start 0, end 1423359, size 1423360 sd1c: start 0, end 1410499, size 1410500 sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic sd1: raw partition size != slice size sd1: start 0, end 1423359, size 1423360 sd1c: start 0, end 1410499, size 1410500 tao# This makes me wonder exactly where the 1423359 is coming from. The 1410499 is coming from fdisk.... Mike said that I had to use fdisk and plug in the ``right numbers''...but fdisk is worse than difficult to understand. fdisk says that sd1 has 4 partitions and only the 4th is for FreeBSD, and I don't have a clue. Trying your disktab entry with disklabel gives me the following errors: partition c: partition extends past end of unit partition h: partition extends past end of unit Upon rebooting, there are similar complaints as above. Do you have any idea what's happening here? Should I suffer thru using fdisk? and can you guide me by the hard thru it? As I said, I'm lost. Adding a drive--esp'ly a SCSI drive--shouldn't be this hard.... Thanks for any clues here. gary kline -- End of included mail. PS: The exact output from dmesg when Using your /etc/disktab entry is: changing root device to sd0a sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic sd1: raw partition size != slice size sd1: start 0, end 1423359, size 1423360 sd1c: start 0, end 1410499, size 1410500 sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic sd1: raw partition size != slice size sd1: start 0, end 1423359, size 1423360 sd1c: start 0, end 1410499, size 1410500 And yet, /dev/sd1c is mounted on /usr/local2, cleanly. p3 16:00 [1005] mount /home/kline /dev/sd0a on / (local) /dev/sd0s1e on /usr (local) /dev/sd0s1f on /var (local) /dev/sd0s1g on /usr/local (local) /dev/sd1h on /usr/local2 (local) procfs on /proc (local) p3 16:00 [1006] df /home/kline Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0a 155144 46262 96472 32% / /dev/sd0s1e 1089860 863746 138926 86% /usr /dev/sd0s1f 310322 229792 55706 80% /var /dev/sd0s1g 341908 276124 38432 88% /usr/local /dev/sd1h 1332081 298 1225217 0% /usr/local2 procfs 8 8 0 100% /proc p3 16:01 [1007] /home/kline So I don't know what's going on... --g