Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 23:22:29 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cannot partition HP 73GB disks Message-ID: <20090706222229.GA23689@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090706205125.GA18002@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20090706201733.GA17827@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> <20090706205125.GA18002@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:51:25PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 09:17:33PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > Trying to install FBSD 8.0-snapshot 200906 on 73GB HP scsi disks: > > > > da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > > da0: <HP 73.4G ST373454LC HPC2> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > > da0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit) > > da0: Command Queueing Enabled > > da0: 70007MB (143374738 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C) > > da1 at mpt0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 > > da1: <HP 73.4G ST373454LC HPC2> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > > da1: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit) > > da1: Command Queueing Enabled > > da1: 70007MB (143374738 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C) > > > > > > and partition name appears only as "X" in disklabel editor: > > > > > > FreeBSD Disklabel Editor > > > > Disk: da0 Free: 0 blocks (0MB) > > > > Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs > > ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- > > X /efi 100MB EFI Y > > X / 512MB UFS2 Y > > X swap 4055MB SWAP > > X /var 3051MB UFS2+S Y > > X /tmp 512MB UFS2+S Y > > X /usr 61776MB UFS2+S Y > > > > > > automatic or manual - doesn't matter, all partitions are named X, > > and the installation fails with "cannot create partition /dev/X" or > > similar. > > > > With some seagate 17GB disks works fine. > > > > Please advise > > This thread mentiones a somewhat similar problem > - the installation program cannot "write data to > disk" in 5.2 and 6.1. It's on zx6000 itanium, > which is very similar to my rx2600, and again > 73GB scsi disks are used: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ia64/2006-December/001191.html > > no solution was found then. Using livefs cd I was able to gpart one disk. Then booting from the installation disk1 I can set: FreeBSD Disklabel Editor Disk: da0 Free: 0 blocks (0MB) Part Mount Size Newfs Part Mount Size Newfs ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- da0p1 /efi 400MB EFI N da0p2 / 512MB UFS2 N da0p3 swap 2048MB SWAP da0p4 /var 1024MB UFS2+S N da0p5 /tmp 1024MB UFS2+S N da0p6 /usr 64999MB UFS2+S N However, when the installaiton starts I get several warnings, something about fsck returning error 8 on checking root partition, and then this error: Error mounting /dev/da0p2 on /mnt : Invalid argument -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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