On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 00:20:08 +0100 [email protected] wrote: > I'm having some problems with disks. Probably because I still don't > understand enough of how BSD manage them: > > 1. I was going to install -current on a USB flash drive. I did the > install media using install59.fs and booted. I scape from installer to > shell because I wanted to wipe the drive using dd(1) and to create a > RAID partition (for FDE). I could not find the disk on /dev/, however. > The system print on screen that the disk is located at "sd5" interface > ("dmesg | grep sd" confirm this), but I cound not find it using "disklabel > /dev/sd5". The only interfaces there was sd0 and wd0, none was my disk. > How can I find it? The ./install script can find the sd5 normally, but I > can't find it manually.
# (cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV sd5) > > 2. I gave up of the FDE idea temporarily and I just did the install > normally. No problem to install, but the speed of the system was too > slow... at the point that it was basically unusable (>4 hours to install > 10 packages and ~4 minutes to startx). > The device, a USB flash drive, have about 10MB/s write speed. It's kinda > slow, but I don't think this was the cause of the slowliness. I checked > the signature of the snapshot and the installed sets had no problem with > SHA256 too, so it's not a problem with corrupted snapshot. > on quick way to check to check if it is the drive itself is to use dd: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/testfile bs=1M count=20 but if the install was not slow that is unlikely to be the problem.
