Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2000 19:24:43 -0700 From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kg@versys.net> To: pahowes@fair-ware.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: atdisk driver question... Message-ID: <390B996B.A31DEA7D@versys.net> References: <PCEHKHHDDCJMAMJLBLNCMEECCDAA.pahowes@fair-ware.com>
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"Paul A. Howes" wrote: > > 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. First reaction would be to ask if you edited "etc/fstab". > 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. (I am not sure if this would apply given the error) Was the disk scanned for bad sectors w/bad144 on the initial install? -- Regards, Kevin G. Eliuk Technician | VerSys Communications Ltd. | http://www.versys.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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