From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 16 02:49:08 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7449A1065693 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:49:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qw0-f54.google.com (mail-qw0-f54.google.com [209.85.216.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227C78FC24 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:49:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwg5 with SMTP id 5so5254845qwg.13 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:49:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=8zcXbj1OprhuU/j+PSGCP7R0gIdL+FYi+sk1hx8xmCw=; b=UtrNzA1PenQdQuWxACRSIX8zwJhxcEhbg9R8FPv4vg452sfloKRZeG2RHBCJcDzFn0 1o6V49i1vklX08Qj4kWOAUS5gY34eR6BRDmeQ9e9PSp3ByI5Lv3w2/GTtua/h+nBNivI 95BxFPXTELmY1hPb3cyTUmLRahTQdg+CpokW0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=nZic2mNwFltlGm0kkoaKvlSB5KDtbu6t4N6yRs7vKzS9L1YHbF63LEXAz135XQLl7l iPPYepgIceBr7XDflLwadyKNpcmgIVO975AcSo+0lS0e+v7rHc/9711wFRUrG5XbEECl qiPgcVP/6bQqrns6u13MOZ9OpTMtUOB3L7Gkk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.184.196 with SMTP id cl4mr3167131qcb.190.1281926947311; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:49:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.25.72 with HTTP; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:49:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C6835B9.7000900@nagual.nl> References: <4C669668.5040906@nagual.nl> <19558.60756.860555.968721@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <4C66F542.6090501@nagual.nl> <19559.15997.480750.380264@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <4C6835B9.7000900@nagual.nl> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 21:49:07 -0500 Message-ID: From: Adam Vande More To: Dick Hoogendijk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: hartzell@alerce.com, freebsd questions Subject: Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1 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: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:49:08 -0000 On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I learned a lot from the scripts. ;-) The drives work wonderful as a > gmirror now. > My 500Gb drives won't however. they keep on giving cg); bad magic number. > Sysinstall won't newfs the drives. newfs -U /dev/gm1a (created with the > script mentioned before does not work OK either. Always this unexplained > message (cg0: bad magic number). I have NO CLUE whatsoever what can be the > cause of this. Both drives can be formatted by Windows, Linux and lots of > other utilities. They can not be formatted UFS2 for / by FreeBSD-8.1/amd64 > > I would love to get some feedback about possible causes and/or solutions. > right now those two 500Gb drives are useless. Spining around for no good. > ;-) You can try to get your system up and running using something like http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ or pcbsd. If that works, then I guess the possible cause is you. :-) -- Adam Vande More