That did the trick! Thanks very much. Now back to trying to get the raid1 array all setup. ;-) I was getting stopped in that process because of the second disk issue, but I didn't notice it the first time around. Again, thank you very much.
On Monday 25 December 2006 21:33, Shane J Pearson wrote: > Hi, > > On 26/12/2006, at 4:11 PM, Merp.com Volunteer wrote: > > Strange problem here, seems only to show up under OpenBSD 4.0 so > > far (verified > > not a noticeable problem under Gentoo Linux 2006.1 or Suse Linux > > 10.1): > > 2 brand new SATA2 Seagate 320 GB hard drives, completely wiped/ > > unpartitioned. > > wd0 reports correctly as: > > total sectors = 625142448 > > total free sectors = 625142448 > > BUT wd1 reports incorrectly as: > > total free sectors = 16514001 > > That is a fraction of the drive. > > > > I tried re-wiping, partitioning, etc. to no avail. > > I sometimes see this sort of behaviour on freshly zeroed drives on my > systems. > > Within disklabel, I use "D" to set default values and then "b" to set > the OpenBSD disk boundaries. Since I dedicate drives for OpenBSD, > that's from the beginning, to the end "*". > > This has always fixed that problem for me. > > > Shane J P -- *** Volunteer Team for the completely non-profit, non-revenue, non-business-entity dedicated to the Middle-earth Role-playing International Community at Merp.com "Fighting the noble battle against the dark forces, trying to keep alive, and growing, the dream and joy of role-playing gaming in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth" http://www.merp.com Mailing list subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Server: irc.merp.com (channel: #merpchat) Yahoo=merpcom ICQ=293-163-919 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternate Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (in case you're blocked by our spam filters). Be sure to sign up for the 3rd annual International MerpCon (2007): July 27th, 28th, & 29th in Spokane, WA, USA. This event is not run by merp.com, but by a different group of volunteers, but merp.com has donated many services to help them out. Show them your support by signing up, spreading the word, and showing up. http://www.merpcon.com "I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama..." - John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, from a letter written to Milton Waldman, ca. 1951 -
