Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:35:58 +0200 From: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> To: amvandemore@gmail.com Cc: hartzell@alerce.com, freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1 Message-ID: <1281947758890646500@nagual.nl> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=fYtMYLeWgM8JZdECbv8EfkVSQcoSeFyLsOGXK@mail.gmail.com> 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> <AANLkTi=fYtMYLeWgM8JZdECbv8EfkVSQcoSeFyLsOGXK@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 04:49 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wro= te: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.nl> wrote: > > My 500Gb drives won't however. they keep on giving cg); bad magic numbe= r. > > Sysinstall won't newfs the drives. newfs -U /dev/gm1a (created with the > > script mentioned before does not work OK either. Always this unexplaine= d > > 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/am= d64 >=20 > 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. :-) Good idea. I will give it a shot, although I'm pretty sure I'm not the caus= e. I have four years experience as a (Open)Solaris system administrator and be= fore that I used FreeBSD heavely. From the 4.10 series up to the 6.x series= . So I do know something about the matter. But, we'll see... Keep you poste= d.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1281947758890646500>