newfs hangs while installing 6.1

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 11/27/06, Klim <klimklim at tiscali.it> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to install freebsd 6.1 and the installation hangs while
> creating the root filesystem.
> I have a Silicon Image 3512 RAID controller configured as a RAID 1 with
> two 250GB maxtor drives. I'm using the amd64 distribution on a Pentium D
> machine (with a asus P5B motherboard).
> The last issued command appares to be:
> newfs -O2 /dev/ar0s1a
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
> Has anybody observed such a behavior?

Try using dd on /dev/ar0 in both reading and writing
directions, see what happens.

Personally, I don't understand why people choose
anything else than gmirror/gstripe when they need
raid 0/1.