From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 29 18:33: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from westhost15.westhost.net (westhost15.westhost.net [216.71.84.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE4F437B5E7 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 18:33:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pahowes@fair-ware.com) Received: from beast (h0020af68b314.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.140.123]) by westhost15.westhost.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA17618 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 20:31:13 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Paul A. Howes" To: Subject: atdisk driver question... Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 21:33:07 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently started upgrading several computers from 3.4S to 4.0S. The first one went off without a single problem, and is happily humming right next to me. With that success behind me, I decided to upgrade an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 2400CS notebook computer. It has worked perfectly with 3.3 and 3.4 in the past. I followed all of the instructions for the upgrade process. When I got to the point of rebooting with my spiffy new 4.0 kernel, the trouble began... All of the devices recognize fine. The root partition of the hard drive mounts. Then, I get an error that /dev/wd0s1f is larger than the partition. "fsck" also bombs out, telling me that it cannot read several sectors. If I reboot with my 3.4S kernel, the system comes up without a hitch. And yes, I created ad0, ad0s1[abcdefgh] to match the old "wd" device identifiers. The only difference I can think of between the two computers, is that the server I already upgraded has a 20GB hard drive, and an old BIOS. I had to partition that to get the whole thing recognized by FreeBSD. The notebook computer has the original Toshiba 503MB hard drive, which I used the "dangerously dedicated" option on when I installed. So, the short version of this question is, does the new "ad" driver not handle "dangerously dedicated" systems properly? Has anyone else seen this before? I'm going to try re-installing 3.4S using a "normal" disk partition, and see what happens. But, I wanted to send a message to the list while I'm doing that. Thanks! --Paul A. Howes To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message