From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 11 18:57:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.noos.fr (aragon.noos.net [212.198.2.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC58B37B405 for ; Sun, 11 Nov 2001 18:57:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 52539866 invoked by uid 0); 12 Nov 2001 02:53:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gits.dyndns.org) ([212.198.229.145]) (envelope-sender ) by 212.198.2.75 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 12 Nov 2001 02:53:15 -0000 Received: (from root@localhost) by gits.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAC2rEq28982; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 03:53:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from root) Message-Id: <200111120253.fAC2rEq28982@gits.dyndns.org> Subject: Re: "disklabel -rw ar0 auto" breaks HPT raid0+1 In-Reply-To: <200111120119.fAC1Jq448679@apollo.backplane.com> To: Matthew Dillon Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 03:53:14 +0100 (CET) Cc: John De Boskey , Stable List Reply-To: clefevre@citeweb.net From: Cyrille Lefevre Organization: ACME X-Face: X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL95a (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Dillon wrote: > :> :half cylinder is reserved by fdisk. so, it doesn't clobber anything. > :> :is this explanation more clear ? > :> > :> No, the EXAMPLES section. > : > :there is nothing in the "EXAMPLES" section which prevent to write > :the first 16 sectors if using the drive in `dangerously-dedicated' > :mode that is w/ no fdisk partition. > > The examples section, if you have a reasonably recent (4.3 or > later I believe) system, shows you how to create a disklabel -stable is enough :P > inside a slice (i.e. NOT dangerously dedicated), and shows you > how to run fdisk to initialize a disk and then how to run > disklabel to inintialize the slice. The sequence is something > like: > > fdisk -BI da0 > disklabel -w -r -B da0s1 auto > disklabel -e da0s1 so, we are "in accord" (don't know if this is really english speaking :) but the originator of this thread (John) don't talk about fdisk. so, I stated that he is trying to format his drives in `dangerously-dedicated' mode which conflict w/ the HTP hardware which lso need the first blocks of the drive. Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message