Date: Mon, 17 Jun 96 15:25:00 -0400 From: Yves Lepage <yves@CC.McGill.CA> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IBM HD's Message-ID: <199606171925.PAA25113@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA> References: <199606151525.LAA18470@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA>
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Hi all, Someone here found a way to install FreeBSD on all the machines which have disks we thought were broken (it is still unclear if they are or not). Here's the recipe: - go to the partitionner and slice the disk, write - go to the labeler, partition and write. It fails. - go back to the partitionner, just write. No other action must be performed. - go back to the labeler, write. It works. This seems to point to a problem with the partitionner that wouldn't write the MBR sucessfully the first time but could do it the second time. Thanks all for the replies. Yves Lepage Begin forwarded message: Return-Path: owner-freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Received: from sirocco.CC.McGill.CA (sirocco.CC.McGill.CA [132.206.27.12]) by maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA (8.7.1/8.6.10) with SMTP id LAA19056 for <yves@maelstrom.cc.mcgill.ca>; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:52:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ns2.harborcom.net (root@ns2.harborcom.net [206.158.4.4]) by sirocco.CC.McGill.CA (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id LAA12866 for <yves@CC.McGill.CA>; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:55:49 -0400 X-SMTP-Posting-Origin: ns2.harborcom.net (root@ns2.harborcom.net [206.158.4.4]) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.4]) by ns2.harborcom.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA00905; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:53:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA29658; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 08:27:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA29642 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 08:27:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA (maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA [132.206.35.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA29635 for <hackers@freebsd.org>; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 08:27:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from yves@localhost) by maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA (8.7.1/8.6.10) id LAA18470; Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:25:53 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 1996 11:25:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Yves Lepage <yves@CC.McGill.CA> Message-Id: <199606151525.LAA18470@maelstrom.CC.McGill.CA> To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: IBM HD's Cc: yves@maelstrom.cc.mcgill.ca Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi all, During my attemps to install FreeBSD on some 50 machines for one of the Inet96 workshops, I had to fight with a few of these machines which had one of these two kind of HD: - IBM-DALA - Quantum Fireball I could partition the disks no problem and I could do a bad block scan with also no problem. Problems began when I created the Unix filesystems. First, I'd get an error message that FreeBSD couldn't swap on wd0s2b because the device is not configured. Then, the creation of a filesystem on wd0a would fail. Just as if the labeler didn't know how to access these disks. I suspect that these two disks have a strange controller (IDE). Did anyone encounter this kind of problem before and if so, what did they do to solve it? Thanks a lot, Yves Lepage PS: yes I did play with the geometry parameters but that didn't do anything.
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