Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 19:04:00 -0600 (CST) From: Alex Charalabidis <alex@wnm.net> To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 9.1 Gig barracuda Compat?? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.05.9912291856380.10204-100000@earth.wnm.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9912291631490.4651-100000@mail.telestream.com>
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On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > Since having a raid array completely die on me and trying every possible > combination to get even a single drive to ever remount. I took a brand new > fresh drive from the shelf. Hooked it up to a completely differnt > computer with a new adaptec card. I went into sysinstall to configure and > add the drive to the system in a last ditch effort to see if it was some > kind of incompatability with FreeBSD and the Barracuda drives. > With a completely new system drive, card and box. I get the exact same > error from FreeBSD when hitting "w" in the disklabel editor. > > DEBUG: MakeDev: unknown major/minor for devtype - > > I'm not a complete newbie and have installed additional disks in the past. > Does anyone know if there is some problem with these drives in FreeBSD? > Or am I doing something horribly wrong? > One of the machines on my desk says "no" - it has a 9.1G Barracuda on an Adaptec 2940UW card and not the slightest hint of a problem (3.4-STABLE, supped 19991217). There's also a co-lo that agrees with it (3.3-STABLE). It must be something else but I can't imagine what. A hosed /dev/MAKEDEV comes to mind. -ac -- ============================================================== Alex Charalabidis (AC8139) 5050 Poplar Ave, Ste 170 Systems Administrator Memphis, TN 38157 WebNet Memphis (901) 432 6000 ============================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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