Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 10:12:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: mike@sentex.net (Mike Tancsa) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mylex 960 Message-ID: <199910241712.KAA13058@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 Oct 1999 14:47:44 GMT." <38131acc.269521301@mail.sentex.net>
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> I tried the latest this morning, and still the same issue. > Oct 24 09:52:08 slag2a /kernel: mlx0: I/O error - attempt to writt to write > beyond end of drive > Oct 24 09:52:08 slag2a /kernel: mlx0: I/O error - attempt to write beyond > end of drive > FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Sun Oct 24 09:34:47 EDT 1999 > > How should I be fdisking and disklabling the drive ? Anything different > than > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rmlxd0 bs=1k count=1 > disklabel -Brw mlxd0 auto > disklabel -e mlxd0 > newfs /dev/rmlxd0e That's OK as long as you make the 'e' partition correctly. Try newfs'ing the 'c' partition instead. It'd also help to see the boot messages from the driver and the disklabel, since it looks like the controller and the disklabel disagree about the size of the drive. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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