LSI Logic FC919X Controller

Joe Holden joe at joeholden.co.uk
Sun Jun 11 00:36:02 UTC 2006


Matthew Jacob wrote:
> Dunno what the geom issues is other than you're trying to put a DOS
> label on it.
> In othewords, *don't* do
>
> disklabel -Brw daN uato
>
> Just newfs the drive the daN device- that should work.
>
> On 6/10/06, Joe Holden <joe at joeholden.co.uk> wrote:
>> Matthew Jacob wrote:
>> >> Hi Matthew, this patch appears to have worked, however it also
>> appears
>> >> to have been detected first, which has broken my fstab, is there
>> any way
>> >> to order disks/hardware detection?
>> >>
>> >
>> > Nope, sorry. That's an annoying problem that's hard to fix for most
>> > non-Windows systems.
>> Hi, it appears to be possible to sort the da order out, not a major
>> problem, just bugging me, now if only I could get geom correct so I can
>> see the entire 3.5tb array instead of 1024gb!
>>
>> I have a mild case of scsi-phobia, and am relatively clueless about it,
>> sysinstall complains GEOM is incorrect, and insists disk is 999999MB in
>> size, although will only partition 976GB of it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joe
>>
>>
>>
>>

The point at which newfs stops is seemingly random, also, if i try and
read the disklabel, the whole system blocks (new ssh connections connect
but don't actually spawn a new sshd process etc).

Thanks,
Joe


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