From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 24 23:18:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA20354 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:18:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA20349 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 1996 23:17:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ab19148; 25 Jul 96 6:17 GMT Received: from icrt.demon.co.uk ([158.152.246.228]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa14051; 25 Jul 96 7:02 +0100 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 06:56:49 +0100 To: James Raynard Cc: questions@freebsd.org From: "Lars G. Erlandsen" Subject: Re: Help: FreeBSD 2.1 'mount' fails on 2.0 SCSI partition In-Reply-To: <199607051709.RAA01856@jraynard.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Version 1.11 <0$M+ltNrbQ$Y$ryVKqcUZpyKB5> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199607051709.RAA01856@jraynard.demon.co.uk>, James Raynard writes [cut] Further to your opening reply to my cry for help with the corrupt BSD 2.0 partitions, I have now managed, in no small part thanks to everybody's help, to restore my data. Reading through **ALL** the supplied documentation, I eventually found the small print from Jordan, warning people of incompatibility problems and panic's if trying to mount 2.0 partitions. This tied in with people advising me that the partitions looked ok, however, the 'd' partition was gone in 2.1, and I could probably get away with hand-editing the disktab info, and write it back. In the end I decided to settle for safety. Last weekend I removed all other hard drives except the SCSI drive, turned off LBA, cleaned out an IDE drive completely, made two partitions (one MSDOS, one BSD), re- installed my 5.25" floppy drive (my 3.5" boot floppy image on the FreeBSD 2.0 CDROM was corrupted), created 5.25" boot floppies, installed a minimum FreeeBSD 2.0 from the two floppies, booted it, manually mounted the DOS partition, and then the SCSI partitions. That done, I tar'ed the relevant directories without compression (no compression available without installing yet more software) to the DOS partition. Then I re-built the machine back up again, copied the data over to several other partitions, verified it in many ways, and only then did I drop the SCSI partitions. I've now got a fully working FreeBSD 2.1 system. The installation of that was the smaller job in the end. FreeBSD is still not happy about booting from a SCSI disk, but I've just created the root partition on an IDE disk, and manage that way. The tcp also seems very slow on interactive work with lots of little packets, as if it is ignoring the setsockopt(,,TCP_NODELAY) call I make. However, the system is tight, compact, sturdy, and very responsive in every other way. A tape drive is now on my 'must have' list. I wonder why...? Lars G. Erlandsen, Inter-Connect RealTime Ltd. email lerland@icrt.demon.co.uk