Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 15:16:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Robert Johannes <rjohanne@piper.hamline.edu> Cc: freebsd-scsi <scsi@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Adding a second scsi drive Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210081512160.11953-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210071408460.1320-100000@mendeleev.hamline.edu>
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On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Robert Johannes wrote: > I just physically installed a second scsi drive. It is a quantum viking > II 9.1 gig, target 6, lun0. The scsi controller is tekram's xx875, using > the sym driver. The driver sees the drive as da1, recognizes the > cyl/heads/sectors, and all that stuff. > > When I try to add the drive to freebsd (4.7-Prerelease, which I think is > 4.6-stable) using /stand/sysinstall, fdisk fails saving the label to > disk, and so does disklabel. > > If I try it via the command line, with dd and disklabel, I get > "/dev/da1: permission denied". I know that the drive is not write > protected, because the jumber is not installed to write protect it. It is > also a new drive. > > Is there a step I'm missing? My intuition tells me that maybe there's > nothing at /dev/da1, but if that's the case, then the system should not > report in the boot messages that there's a da1? > > Help would ve very appreciated. > > robert I think there are several problems with sysinstall. One I know of is that if you take an existing partition and change its type, sysinstall will fail to label that disk. There's a PR for this with patch that I will look at shortly. There are other problems with sysinstall that I've seen for a long time that have not been fixed either. Try other ways of using disklabel manually as shown on the man page. I don't know what you mean by "dd and disklabel" since disklabel by itself should be enough to initialize the label. Are you saying "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=512" gives EPERM? -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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