On Friday, 14 November 2003 at 11:50:09 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: > Running FBSD 4.9 on an Intel SMP mobo w/ 2 Intel PII 350s. Onboard SCSI is > recognized and sees all my drives. One SCSI 3 drive is 4.5G for the OS and > /usr. I have 4 identical IBM SCSI3 disks 9G each, however one of those 4 > will not disklabel. The other three will. This leads to troubles then, > obviously, to setting the 4 drives for vinum use. Was using these 4 drives > on 5.0-RELEASE with vinum previously no troubles....downgraded for some > backup software (bacula) compatibility reasons. > > In dmesg, da1, da2, da3, da4 all show as identical drives, model number, > capacity, etc. I have not removed the drive to see if there is a special > jumper to protect such things, I shall do this later today. > > When I try to `disklabel -e da4', I get the info open, I can change > whatever I like, then when I save the file it complains; that the device > does not support this feature. The other 3 drives all did `disklabel -e > dax' with no trouble.
Do you have device nodes for da4? Has it been labelled at all? Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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