In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Gilbert writes:
>I ran into an interesting problem last night ... that was very
>frustrating. I was recycling SCSI drives from some NetBSD machines
>(that were client boxes) to add to a RAID server running
>FreeBSD-5.0-RELEASE.
>
>It's simply impossible to format NetBSD drives under current.
>
>Let me expand on that. /dev/da2 exists, but you can't say 'fdisk -I
>da2' ... fdisk says that /dev/da2 doesn't exist. /dev/da2 (and
>/dev/da2c) isn't writable, so I can't blank the first few sectors. I
>even tried this in single user mode.
/dev/da2 is always writable unless you have any of the partitions
open.
I guess you have whacked the disk now, so I won't be able to get
any debugging information.
In case of disk/GEOM related problems, I need the output from
dmesg
sysctl -b kern.geom.confxml
or I won't really be able to do debugging...
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