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Date:      Thu, 23 Mar 2000 01:46:50 -0800
From:      Eric Sabban <eric@clickrebates.com>
To:        Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks
Message-ID:  <38D9E80A.E11E0F11@clickrebates.com>
References:  <200003230825.AAA01040@mass.cdrom.com>

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Why not? The drives are empty LVD Drives, nothing bad'll happen.

I mean, it may very well be sysinstall being massively out of sync, but it shouldn't hurt to LL the drives.

-eric

Mike Smith wrote:

> > Try low-levelling the drives. The behavior sounds similar to what I had a long time ago, low level formatting them fixed the problem.
>
> Not a good idea.  Sounds more like sysinstall is massively out of sync
> with the rest of the system; it's not updated with the rest of the world.
>
> >
> > -eric
> >
> > Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> >
> > > Since this is a fairly current issue, I'm posting this appropriately.
> > >
> > > I have a DELL server that has hooked up to it a PowerVault, with 8 36gb 10krpm LVD drives.   The system has recognized these previously and dmesg shows them present; however, /stand/sysinstall says that I don't have ANY disks installed when using Label or Fdisk.
> > >
> > > Is this a known bug?   I've done a buildworld/installworld yesterday after a cvsup.
> > >
> > > TIA.
> > >
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