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Date:      Tue, 28 Jan 1997 16:03:09 -0800 (PST)
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions Mailgroup)
Subject:   Returned mail: mail.zit.th-darmstadt.de. config error: mail loops back to me (MX problem?) (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199701290003.QAA20554@athena.tera.com>

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Re: IBM drive.

	NOTE that this has bounced 17 times to Greg Lemis, 
	mailed directly....  Hopefully it will work via the
	list.  --gdk.


I'm lost.

I've been trying to get this bloody thing installed for a few weeks,
and not getting much closer.  But with help from the mailing list,
and continued trying...  (?)  Hopefully.

As I see it, there are two issues, prob'ly tightly coupled. The first
is the size of the slice/partition; the second is the error messages.

Mike Murphy (mrm@mole.org) said that the 1423360 is incorrect.  He
multiplied out 4*91*3875 to get 1410500.   He suggested this disktab
entry that I tried that seemed to work with sd1a:


#mrm ibm3720|IBM 720MB SCSI:\
      #mrm :dt=SCSI:ty=winchester:se#512:nt#4:ns#91:nc#3875:rm#4500: \
      #mrm :pa#1410500:oa#0:tc=4.2BSD:bc#8192:fc#1024: \
      #mrm :pc#1410500:oc#0: \
      #mrm :pd#1410500:od#0:


(Mike suggested using sd1a rather than sd1c... )


I did a 

disklabel -r -w sd1 ibm3720

followed by a

newfs sd1a

and after newfs created the filesystem, the drive mounted on /mnt,
no problem.  ---But upon rebooting, the same errors were printed 
out.

   fdc0: input ready timeout
   fd0c: hard error reading fsbn 0 of 0-19 (No status)
   sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic
   sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic
   sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic
   sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic
   sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic
   sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic
   sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic
   sd1: raw partition size != slice size
   sd1: start 0, end 1423359, size 1423360
   sd1c: start 0, end 1410499, size 1410500
   sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic
   sd1: raw partition size != slice size
   sd1: start 0, end 1423359, size 1423360
   sd1c: start 0, end 1410499, size 1410500
   sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic
   sd1: raw partition size != slice size
   sd1: start 0, end 1423359, size 1423360
   sd1c: start 0, end 1410499, size 1410500
   sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic
   sd1: raw partition size != slice size
   sd1: start 0, end 1423359, size 1423360
   sd1c: start 0, end 1410499, size 1410500
   tao# 

This makes me wonder exactly where the 1423359 is coming from.  The
1410499 is coming from fdisk....  Mike said that I had to use fdisk
and plug in the ``right numbers''...but fdisk is worse than 
difficult to understand.  fdisk says that sd1 has 4 partitions and 
only the 4th is for FreeBSD, and I don't have a clue.

Trying your disktab entry with disklabel gives me the following
errors:

partition c: partition extends past end of unit
partition h: partition extends past end of unit

Upon rebooting, there are similar complaints as above.

Do you have any idea what's happening here?

Should I suffer thru using fdisk? and can you guide me by the
hard thru it?  As I said, I'm lost.  Adding a drive--esp'ly a 
SCSI drive--shouldn't be this hard....

Thanks for any clues here.


gary kline




-- End of included mail.


	PS:

	The exact output from dmesg when Using your
	/etc/disktab entry is:


changing root device to sd0a
sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic
sd1: raw partition size != slice size
sd1: start 0, end 1423359, size 1423360
sd1c: start 0, end 1410499, size 1410500
sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic
sd1: raw partition size != slice size
sd1: start 0, end 1423359, size 1423360
sd1c: start 0, end 1410499, size 1410500


	And yet, /dev/sd1c is mounted on /usr/local2,
	cleanly.


p3 16:00 <tao> [1005] mount                                         /home/kline
/dev/sd0a on / (local)
/dev/sd0s1e on /usr (local)
/dev/sd0s1f on /var (local)
/dev/sd0s1g on /usr/local (local)
/dev/sd1h on /usr/local2 (local)
procfs on /proc (local)
p3 16:00 <tao> [1006] df                                            /home/kline
Filesystem  512-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a       155144    46262    96472    32%    /
/dev/sd0s1e    1089860   863746   138926    86%    /usr
/dev/sd0s1f     310322   229792    55706    80%    /var
/dev/sd0s1g     341908   276124    38432    88%    /usr/local
/dev/sd1h      1332081      298  1225217     0%    /usr/local2
procfs               8        8        0   100%    /proc
p3 16:01 <tao> [1007]                                               /home/kline


	So I don't know what's going on...    --g





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