Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:52:39 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: disklabel fails. Message-ID: <14564.44455.794698.35833@trooper.velocet.net>
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I've had two curious disklabel adventures lately. In both cases, there was absolutely no way to convince the disk to label. In the first, I was using fdisk/disklabel on the command line and then /stand/sysinstall (out of frustration) on an already installed machine with SCSI disks. The disks probed fine, and the machine is a new K7/550. I don't have the motherboard name in front of me, but it's using the TekRAM 390-F SCSI controller. When I took the disk to another machine (which had an adaptec 2940 controller) it labelled just fine. Similarly, I have a new PC-100 System board... It refuses to let me label _any_ drive during the standard install with 4.0-RELEASE. If I take any of these drives to an old pentium-200 motherboard, they all install just fine. The first error I get in the install is the installer claiming that it can't swap to ad0s1b. Other errors follow. What's up with disklabel? Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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