Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 21:18:06 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: "Don O'Neil" <lists@lizardhill.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1 Message-ID: <20081005011805.GA63673@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <D3314319D28D4C51B1D721DFFE21F942@mickey> References: <D3314319D28D4C51B1D721DFFE21F942@mickey>
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On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 04:43:14AM -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. did you try doing a dd to the disk? Sometimes a new unwritten disk seems to need it. I don't know why. It is mentioned in the man page for bsdlabel - near the bottom in an example. dd f=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 bs=512 count=1000 or something like that. I have run in to this a couple of times in the past where the dd seemed to fix it. Anyway, it is getting near Halloween, so these mystery fixes may be appropriate... ////jerry > > Thanks!!! > > _______________________________________________ > 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"
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