Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 00:01:14 +0100 From: Thomas Neuhaus <neuhaus@folkwang-hochschule.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problem with old (sd) disk Message-ID: <3C7AC23A.21F19F0D@folkwang-hochschule.de>
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Dear BSD experts, I happily ran the good old 2.2.8 version of FreeBSD on our server at the institute with hardly any problem. But now its time (for several reasons) to upgrade. I use several SCSI-disks, some with dos-sclices, some "dangerously dedicated" i.e. no slices, the whole disk used for FreeBSD. Now FreeBSD 2.x used the antique "sd" driver for scsi disks, and 4.x uses the modern "da" driver. This is no problem on the "sliced" disks, the disklabels on the slices are all well recognized. But on the non-sliced disks, the label is _not_ properly read, the disklabel-utility shows only the default label, not my partitions. I can of course dump these tiny 120+GB to (several) tapes, freshly slice,partition and mkfs the unsliced disks, but that would bring a little too much downtime here. Does anyone have a better trick? how can I force the da driver to properly read the old label? Any hint is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance, Thomas P.S.: Please reply (or cc) to my private email, as I am not subscribed to freebsd-questions Thanks(again) -- Thomas Neuhaus(neuhaus@folkwang-hochschule.de) Phone (49)-201-4903-333 ICEM Institut fuer Computermusik und elektronische Medien Folkwang-Hochschule Essen, Klemensborn 39, D-45239 Essen ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As Windows is always wrong, you should change the Windows version -- A. Andersson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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