[SOLVED] Re: seeking help on "adding a disk"
Peter
petermatulis at yahoo.ca
Sun Apr 16 15:22:15 UTC 2006
--- Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > > # newfs -U /dev/ad2s1e
> > >
> > > Newfs used to require the raw device name, as in
> > >
> > > newfs -U /dev/rad2s1e
> > >
> > > but I see the man page doesn't show that in its example now, so
> > > maybe it no long does. Try it once and see.
> >
> > > > > The newfs should then work after the bsdlabel is fixed up.
> > > >
> > > > Nope. Same error. Retries of newfs causes crashes at random
> > > sectors.
> > > > I am guessing that the 40-wire cable is causing poor signaling.
> I
> > > also
> > > > tried changing the offset of 'e' to 0 and modifying the 'size'
> so
> > > that
> > > > it matches 'c'.
> > >
> > > Could be. If using rad2s1e doesn't help, then maybe that is your
> > > problem.
> >
> >
> > This is all I have:
> >
> > $ ls -lh /dev/r*
> > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 10 Apr 9 15:55 /dev/random
> >
> > No raw devices.
>
> Yes. devices don't just show up and stay there any more. They
> are managed by devfs. I haven't studied that to see just how
> it works yet, so I don't know at which point it should start showing
> up in /dev if ever.
>
> I just figured trying a newfs with the /dev/r... might be something
> to try out to see what happened - sort of an experiment and if that
> doesn't do it, then maybe the thing to pursue is your concern about
> the cables.
>
> If that doesn't work, I think this has gone beyond any problems I
> have
> ever had so I don't know what else to suggest. Hopefully someone
> else
> will have some thing to say.
>
> ////jerry
I changed to a UDMA 133 cable (80-wire) and that solved the problem;
the newfs command succeeded!
Peter
__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com
More information about the freebsd-questions
mailing list