cannot partition HP 73GB disks

[Anton Shterenlikht]

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.

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Anton Shterenlikht
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