Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 23:13:48 -0500 From: Tom Jackson <toj@gorillanet.gorilla.net> To: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: devfs/slice problem Message-ID: <19980518231348.56058@TOJ.org> In-Reply-To: <19980518174957.44766@TOJ.org>; from Tom Jackson on Mon, May 18, 1998 at 05:49:57PM -0500 References: <19980518174957.44766@TOJ.org>
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I found out the problem. Just after trying the new CAM snap I noticed that procmail stopped working. I tracked that down to /dev/null being writeable only by root; remade and it worked. Tonight noticed that sound was no longer working; remade snd and it began working. On a hunch remade sd1 <G>; fdisk sd1 began working. Not really sure how my device drivers got corrupted but they did. MAKEDEV all!! Still there is the condition of partitions extending past end of slice, seem to remember a warning to not disklabel etc when running devfs/slice. Also noticed that my Syquest will not release a cartridge after it has been mounted. Will mount and unmount, just not release it from the drive. I guess this relates to what Julian was saying about floppy problem. On the CAM front, running smp I was getting failures in 'make world'?? Happy hunting, On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 05:49:57PM -0500, Tom Jackson wrote: > > Since devfs/slice had been added to LINT I adopted it to all > my boxes. No problem on two with single disk, dangerously > dedicated. On the the main server box, disklabel says all disk > end partition and 'c' partition extend past end of disk. > > When I tried to use sysinstall to change the slice settings on > a brand new disk, it hung, sorry I didn't get debug messages. I > won't go into the file system corruption I got on unrelated fs's > ( first time ever with FreeBSD ) but the new disk now is not seen > by /stand/sysinstall. Also fdisk can't find the slices either and > says it is using dummy parameters 1/1/1 and then it hangs. > > I've got the corrupted file systems back by dumping devfs/slice > on the server and using /stand/sysinstall to delete, bring back > and newfs the file systems. > > BIG question is how do I get fdisk to work with the new disk and > thus, let me use /stand/sysinstall to set the slice settings. The > weird thing is msdos lets me put a dos slice on this disk, no problem, > pfdisk shows the slices, no problem, and a boot floppy picks up the > disk to allow me to set the slices. > > I'm holding off dedicating anything to this disk until I can get it > to look normal to fdisk. > > Thanks for FreeBSD, > > > -- > Tom > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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