From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 11 13:57:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 5F8CE16A403 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:57:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1186B43DA1 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:57:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id k3BDvoA9019474; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:57:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.13.6+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) id k3BDvods019473; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:57:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200604111357.k3BDvods019473@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: petermatulis@yahoo.ca (Peter) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:57:50 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20060411005705.30117.qmail@web60011.mail.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL7] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: seeking help on "adding a disk" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:57:56 -0000 > > > --- Jerry McAllister wrote: > > [snip] > > > > # newfs -U /dev/ad2s1e > > > > Newfs used to require the raw device name, as in > > > > newfs -U /dev/rad2s1e > > > > but I see the man page doesn't show that in its example now, so > > maybe it no long does. Try it once and see. > > > > > The newfs should then work after the bsdlabel is fixed up. > > > > > > Nope. Same error. Retries of newfs causes crashes at random > > sectors. > > > I am guessing that the 40-wire cable is causing poor signaling. I > > also > > > tried changing the offset of 'e' to 0 and modifying the 'size' so > > that > > > it matches 'c'. > > > > Could be. If using rad2s1e doesn't help, then maybe that is your > > problem. > > > This is all I have: > > $ ls -lh /dev/r* > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 10 Apr 9 15:55 /dev/random > > No raw devices. Yes. devices don't just show up and stay there any more. They are managed by devfs. I haven't studied that to see just how it works yet, so I don't know at which point it should start showing up in /dev if ever. I just figured trying a newfs with the /dev/r... might be something to try out to see what happened - sort of an experiment and if that doesn't do it, then maybe the thing to pursue is your concern about the cables. If that doesn't work, I think this has gone beyond any problems I have ever had so I don't know what else to suggest. Hopefully someone else will have some thing to say. ////jerry