From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 19:46:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C169916A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:46:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7665A43F75 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2003 19:46:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E7822BD32 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:46:26 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 557F0511FA; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:16:24 +1030 (CST) Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:16:24 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Bob Collins Message-ID: <20031118034624.GH32042@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <5.2.0.9.0.20031114105727.00a9d6d8@anything-inc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="z5HJNHpVrs9F5Roc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20031114105727.00a9d6d8@anything-inc.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 03:46:29 -0000 --z5HJNHpVrs9F5Roc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Friday, 14 November 2003 at 11:50:09 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: > Running FBSD 4.9 on an Intel SMP mobo w/ 2 Intel PII 350s. Onboard SCSI is > recognized and sees all my drives. One SCSI 3 drive is 4.5G for the OS and > /usr. I have 4 identical IBM SCSI3 disks 9G each, however one of those 4 > will not disklabel. The other three will. This leads to troubles then, > obviously, to setting the 4 drives for vinum use. Was using these 4 drives > on 5.0-RELEASE with vinum previously no troubles....downgraded for some > backup software (bacula) compatibility reasons. > > In dmesg, da1, da2, da3, da4 all show as identical drives, model number, > capacity, etc. I have not removed the drive to see if there is a special > jumper to protect such things, I shall do this later today. > > When I try to `disklabel -e da4', I get the info open, I can change > whatever I like, then when I save the file it complains; that the device > does not support this feature. The other 3 drives all did `disklabel -e > dax' with no trouble. Do you have device nodes for da4? Has it been labelled at all? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --z5HJNHpVrs9F5Roc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/uZYQIubykFB6QiMRAp7lAJ9/4/prdWBFsS5tBPjJF/B9lhacMgCeIGkD pcW/ad63wKQV50kPzxEVcow= =acXY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z5HJNHpVrs9F5Roc--