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Date:      Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:30:16 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Don O'Neil <lists@lizardhill.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1
Message-ID:  <20081005013016.GA71103@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <D3314319D28D4C51B1D721DFFE21F942@mickey>
References:  <D3314319D28D4C51B1D721DFFE21F942@mickey>

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On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 04:43:14AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote:
> I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to label
> it and mount it...
> 
> If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get:
> 
> bsdlabel: Geom not found
> 
> If I run sysinstall, it tells me that it can't write to the disk.
> 
> I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16, but that didn't
> help.
> 
> Can anyone help me get this new disk installed without having to boot off a
> recovery CD? The server is 500 miles away from me and I don't have direct
> console access.

Can you provide output from dmesg, as well as "geom disk list"?

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