Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:07:31 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Pete <pete-freebsd-questions@toscano.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "amnesiac" is disklabel? Message-ID: <20030203053730.GI11468@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20030202185020.GA2070@bubba.toscano.org> References: <20030202185020.GA2070@bubba.toscano.org>
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On Sunday, 2 February 2003 at 13:50:20 -0500, Pete wrote: > Hello... I have three hard drives in my system. One of them (the first) > is the system disk. I'm trying to get the other two ready to be a > mirrored volume. No matter which of the last two drives is last, that > one always is listed as "amnesiac" when I do a disklabel on it: > > ============================== > [root@archive 13:44:07 root]# disklabel ar2 > # /dev/ar2: > type: unknown > disk: amnesiac > label: fictitious > flags: > bytes/sector: 512 > sectors/track: 63 > tracks/cylinder: 255 > sectors/cylinder: 16065 > cylinders: 3737 > sectors/unit: 60036417 > rpm: 3600 > interleave: 1 > trackskew: 0 > cylinderskew: 0 > headswitch: 0 # milliseconds > track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds > drivedata: 0 The only valid information above this point are the geometry specifications, and even they are not very valid. > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > c: 60036417 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 3737*) > ============================== > > What does this mean? Whichever drive is last, that's the one I cannot > "disklabel -e" to set its fstype to "vinum". There must be some other reason for that. Do you have any disk label at all? Otherwise use the /stand/sysinstall partition editor to create a partition. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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