From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 24 09:02:47 2003 Return-Path: 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 BA89216A4C1 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2003 09:02:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kyoto.meibin.net (kyoto.meibin.net [219.166.101.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 762A24400D for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2003 09:02:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lukek@meibin.net) Received: (qmail 37314 invoked by uid 89); 24 Aug 2003 16:01:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO MAGOME) (192.168.10.35) by kyoto.meibin.net with SMTP; 24 Aug 2003 16:01:07 -0000 Message-ID: <006001c36a58$8f1dff80$230aa8c0@MAGOME> From: "Luke Kearney" To: "Chuck Swiger" References: <00d801c3698c$aa559820$230aa8c0@MAGOME> <20030823232831.GA4596@rot13.obsecurity.org> <000601c369ef$6f727c60$080aa8c0@yujo> <3F48DEC5.9070802@mac.com> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:56:13 +0900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: Is this disk toast ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 16:02:47 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Swiger" To: "lukek" Cc: "FreeBSD" Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 12:50 AM Subject: Re: Is this disk toast ? > lukek wrote: > > I have tried re-formatting this disk and even whacked it into a winblows box > > with the hope of writing out another partition table but no luck thus far. > > > > Can someone give me some ideas on what to do about this ? > > Start my making sure your machine has the latest BIOS flashed, then check > whether you can set the drive to "LBA" mode rather than, say, "auto". If your > hardware is having problems identifying the drive geometry properly, this may > help. Then use /stand/sysinstall to repartition the disk, although you could > also use FDISK from DOS as a last resort. Sometimes creating a small (10MB) DOS > partition before installing FreeBSD also helps resolve disk geometry problems. > > [ If you can't partition the drive even via MS-DOS' FDISK, you most likely have > a hardware problem. ] > I think the problem has turned out to be more fundamental than a bios issue. After fiddling around for a while I go the disk reporting the right size in the bios but my issues still persist. I am trying to create a vinum stripe of 200gb using three 80gb drives. What is happening is that once I get the bios right and vinum creates the array without error I then try to copy a very large dir to this machine using rsync. Just because I am cursed the server then freezes, I mean nothing, no keyboard at the terminal ssh connections die kind of die. I have fooled around with these disks and am at wits end with it. The drives are set for LBA FWIW. I cannot see why this cp dies on me. If it were one bad disk then I could replace it but as things stand every disk now stands suspect ;-( LukeK