Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 00:56:13 +0900 From: "Luke Kearney" <lukek@meibin.net> To: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is this disk toast ? Message-ID: <006001c36a58$8f1dff80$230aa8c0@MAGOME> References: <00d801c3698c$aa559820$230aa8c0@MAGOME> <20030823232831.GA4596@rot13.obsecurity.org> <000601c369ef$6f727c60$080aa8c0@yujo> <3F48DEC5.9070802@mac.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Chuck Swiger" <cswiger@mac.com> To: "lukek" <lukek@meibin.net> Cc: "FreeBSD" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> 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
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