RE: Hard Disk problems

2006-04-02 Thread Gayn Winters
 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Ambler
 Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 3:10 AM
 To: FreeBSD Mailing Lists
 Subject: Hard Disk problems
 
 
 A few days ago I started getting some disk errors and can't 
 seem to find a
 reference to find a way to fix them (other than the obvious re-format)
 
 
 The daily security run output contains the following (abbreviated)
 
 Checking setuid files and devices:
 find: /usr/ports/databases/db43/work/db-4.3.28/db: Input/output error
 find: /usr/ports/devel/git/Makefile: Input/output error
 
 ~ repeated 32 times for different files (thankfully all in 
 the ports tree)
 
 tower.home.com kernel log messages:
  ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR
 error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=139102367
  ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR
 error=1ILLEGAL_LENGTH LBA=139102367
 
 These 2 error codes are repeated a total of 38 times all with 
 the same LBA
 
 If I start in single user mode and do fsck it takes about 
 half an hour to
 get through and repeats similar errors many times for just 
 about every check
 it does.
 
 Running #fsck -y  fsckout (while in multiuser mode) is as follows -
 followed by dmesg output since boot
 
  cat fsckout 
 ** /dev/ad0s1a (NO WRITE)
 ** Last Mounted on /
 ** Root file system
 ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
 ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
 ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
 ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
 ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
 2259 files, 44188 used, 82651 free (251 frags, 10300 blocks, 0.2%
 fragmentation)
 ** /dev/ad0s1e (NO WRITE)
 ** Last Mounted on /tmp
 ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
 ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
 ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
 ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
 ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
 591 files, 4501 used, 122338 free (242 frags, 15262 blocks, 0.2%
 fragmentation)
 ** /dev/ad0s1f (NO WRITE)
 ** Last Mounted on /usr
 ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
 
 CANNOT READ BLK: 135486944
 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
 
 CONTINUE? yes
 
 THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 135486944, 135486945,
 135486946, 135486947, 135486948, 135486949, 135486950, 
 135486951, 135486952,
 135486953, 135486954, 135486955, 135486956, 135486957, 
 135486958, 135486959,
 135486960, 135486961, 135486962, 135486963, 135486964, 
 135486965, 135486966,
 135486967, 135486968, 135486969, 135486970,
 ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
 UNALLOCATED  I=5049385  OWNER=squid MODE=100600
 SIZE=15032 MTIME=Apr  1 21:07 2006
 FILE=/local/squid/cache/00/26/26C2
 
 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
 
 REMOVE? no
 
 UNALLOCATED  I=5049875  OWNER=squid MODE=100600
 SIZE=10825 MTIME=Apr  1 21:07 2006
 FILE=/local/squid/cache/00/26/26CA
 
 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
 
 REMOVE? no
 
 UNALLOCATED  I=5049896  OWNER=squid MODE=100600
 SIZE=15008 MTIME=Apr  1 21:07 2006
 FILE=/local/squid/cache/00/26/26D1
 
 UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY
 
 REMOVE? no
 
 ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
 ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
 LINK COUNT FILE I=5740857  OWNER=squid MODE=0
 SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 21:09 2006  COUNT 0 SHOULD BE -1
 ADJUST? no
 
 LINK COUNT FILE I=5792561  OWNER=squid MODE=0
 SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 21:07 2006  COUNT 0 SHOULD BE -1
 ADJUST? no
 
 LINK COUNT FILE I=5875155  OWNER=squid MODE=0
 SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 21:09 2006  COUNT 0 SHOULD BE -1
 ADJUST? no
 
 LINK COUNT FILE I=5970461  OWNER=squid MODE=0
 SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 21:09 2006  COUNT 0 SHOULD BE -1
 ADJUST? no
 
 ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
 SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD
 SALVAGE? no
 
 ALLOCATED FRAGS 1936880-1936911 MARKED FREE
 ALLOCATED FRAGS 1936976-1936983 MARKED FREE
 BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS
 SALVAGE? no
 
 ALLOCATED FILE 5740857 MARKED FREE
 ALLOCATED FRAG 22922007 MARKED FREE
 ALLOCATED FILE 5792561 MARKED FREE
 ALLOCATED FILE 5856663 MARKED FREE
 ALLOCATED FILE 5875155 MARKED FREE
 ALLOCATED FRAG 23448111 MARKED FREE
 ALLOCATED FILE 5970461 MARKED FREE
 ALLOCATED FRAG 23889647 MARKED FREE
 ALLOCATED FILE 6077762 MARKED FREE
 ALLOCATED FRAG 24353503 MARKED FREE
 ALLOCATED FRAGS 26021808-26021813 MARKED FREE
 ALLOCATED FRAGS 26301688-26301690 MARKED FREE
 1534559 files, 15746410 used, 21222026 free (2172530 frags, 
 2381187 blocks,
 5.9% fragmentation)
 ** /dev/ad0s1d (NO WRITE)
 ** Last Mounted on /var
 ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
 ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
 ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
 ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
 UNREF FILE I=8278  OWNER=mysql MODE=100600
 SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 19:13 2006
 CLEAR? no
 
 UNREF FILE I=8301  OWNER=mysql MODE=100600
 SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 19:13 2006
 CLEAR? no
 
 UNREF FILE I=8306  OWNER=mysql MODE=100600
 SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 19:13 2006
 CLEAR? no
 
 UNREF FILE I=25696  OWNER=root MODE=140666
 SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 19:13 2006
 CLEAR? no
 
 ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
 3681 files, 59732 used, 67107 free (1275 frags, 8229 blocks, 1.0%
 fragmentation)
 
  cat dmesg output
 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR 
 error=1ILLEGAL_LENGTH
 LBA=139102367

RE: Hard Disk problems

2006-04-02 Thread Gayn Winters
 You'll probably want to
 reread the section in the Handbook on Moving to a Larger Disk, since
 this is a good time to rethink the sizes of your partitions.

Sorry, this info is in FAQs 9.1 and 9.2 not in the Handbook.
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html

-gayn

Bristol Systems Inc.
714/532-6776
www.bristolsystems.com 


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Re: Hard Disk problems

2006-04-02 Thread Shane Ambler
On 3/4/06 2:49 AM, Gayn Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shane Ambler
 Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 3:10 AM
 To: FreeBSD Mailing Lists
 Subject: Hard Disk problems
 
 
 A few days ago I started getting some disk errors and can't
 seem to find a
 reference to find a way to fix them (other than the obvious re-format)
 
 
 The daily security run output contains the following (abbreviated)
 
 Checking setuid files and devices:
 find: /usr/ports/databases/db43/work/db-4.3.28/db: Input/output error
 find: /usr/ports/devel/git/Makefile: Input/output error
 
 ~ repeated 32 times for different files (thankfully all in
 the ports tree)
 
 tower.home.com kernel log messages:
 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR
 error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=139102367
 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR
 error=1ILLEGAL_LENGTH LBA=139102367
 
 These 2 error codes are repeated a total of 38 times all with
 the same LBA
 
 If I start in single user mode and do fsck it takes about
 half an hour to
 get through and repeats similar errors many times for just
 about every check
 it does.
 
 Running #fsck -y  fsckout (while in multiuser mode) is as follows -
 followed by dmesg output since boot
 
 cat fsckout 
 ** /dev/ad0s1a (NO WRITE)
 ** Last Mounted on /

Snip

 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR
 error=1ILLEGAL_LENGTH
 LBA=139102393
 
 
 
 
 -- 
 
 Shane Ambler
 
 Looks to me like your disk subsystem is dying.  Most likely it is just
 the disk ad0.  If you don't have a good backup, do that immediately.
 Get a new disk in there and test it thoroughly (with the manufacturer's
 diagnostics.)  If all is well, restore to it.  You'll probably want to
 reread the section in the Handbook on Moving to a Larger Disk, since
 this is a good time to rethink the sizes of your partitions.
 
 Incidentally, you can just install the new disk (as ad1), install FBSD
 on it, and dump|restore from ad0 to ad1.
 
 Once restored, you'll still have to clean up the damage.  This is easier
 if your new new disk has a separate partition for user data, since you
 can use a fresh install of the OS, the ports, etc. and worry about
 repairing the user data as best you can.
 
 Good luck!
 
 -gayn
 
 Bristol Systems Inc.
 714/532-6776
 www.bristolsystems.com
 
 
 

Thanks.

I was kinda thinking that might be the case. Space isn't an issue (it's a
120GB drive) this is mostly a testing/learning server at home - runs squid
and dns cache for home use (my other half does a lot of auto-surfing to try
and make a few bucks) and apache/mysql for testing web devel.

The files that showed up as i/o errors are all in /usr/ports so no probs
there, I should be able to copy across what is readable to another drive
without any problems or real loss and worthwhile data there is easy to
replace. 

I am fairly new to *nix and was looking to see if I could learn more
disaster recovery - thought there might be a chance that it was just bad
sectors that weren't getting mapped out automagicaly and I could learn to
fix it manually without reformatting. Now I know that if I see it happen
again I should just replace the disk as soon as I can.


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Hard Disk problems

2006-04-01 Thread Shane Ambler
A few days ago I started getting some disk errors and can't seem to find a
reference to find a way to fix them (other than the obvious re-format)


The daily security run output contains the following (abbreviated)

Checking setuid files and devices:
find: /usr/ports/databases/db43/work/db-4.3.28/db: Input/output error
find: /usr/ports/devel/git/Makefile: Input/output error

~ repeated 32 times for different files (thankfully all in the ports tree)

tower.home.com kernel log messages:
 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR
error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=139102367
 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR
error=1ILLEGAL_LENGTH LBA=139102367

These 2 error codes are repeated a total of 38 times all with the same LBA

If I start in single user mode and do fsck it takes about half an hour to
get through and repeats similar errors many times for just about every check
it does.

Running #fsck -y  fsckout (while in multiuser mode) is as follows -
followed by dmesg output since boot

 cat fsckout 
** /dev/ad0s1a (NO WRITE)
** Last Mounted on /
** Root file system
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
2259 files, 44188 used, 82651 free (251 frags, 10300 blocks, 0.2%
fragmentation)
** /dev/ad0s1e (NO WRITE)
** Last Mounted on /tmp
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
591 files, 4501 used, 122338 free (242 frags, 15262 blocks, 0.2%
fragmentation)
** /dev/ad0s1f (NO WRITE)
** Last Mounted on /usr
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes

CANNOT READ BLK: 135486944
UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

CONTINUE? yes

THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 135486944, 135486945,
135486946, 135486947, 135486948, 135486949, 135486950, 135486951, 135486952,
135486953, 135486954, 135486955, 135486956, 135486957, 135486958, 135486959,
135486960, 135486961, 135486962, 135486963, 135486964, 135486965, 135486966,
135486967, 135486968, 135486969, 135486970,
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
UNALLOCATED  I=5049385  OWNER=squid MODE=100600
SIZE=15032 MTIME=Apr  1 21:07 2006
FILE=/local/squid/cache/00/26/26C2

UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

REMOVE? no

UNALLOCATED  I=5049875  OWNER=squid MODE=100600
SIZE=10825 MTIME=Apr  1 21:07 2006
FILE=/local/squid/cache/00/26/26CA

UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

REMOVE? no

UNALLOCATED  I=5049896  OWNER=squid MODE=100600
SIZE=15008 MTIME=Apr  1 21:07 2006
FILE=/local/squid/cache/00/26/26D1

UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

REMOVE? no

** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
LINK COUNT FILE I=5740857  OWNER=squid MODE=0
SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 21:09 2006  COUNT 0 SHOULD BE -1
ADJUST? no

LINK COUNT FILE I=5792561  OWNER=squid MODE=0
SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 21:07 2006  COUNT 0 SHOULD BE -1
ADJUST? no

LINK COUNT FILE I=5875155  OWNER=squid MODE=0
SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 21:09 2006  COUNT 0 SHOULD BE -1
ADJUST? no

LINK COUNT FILE I=5970461  OWNER=squid MODE=0
SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 21:09 2006  COUNT 0 SHOULD BE -1
ADJUST? no

** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD
SALVAGE? no

ALLOCATED FRAGS 1936880-1936911 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FRAGS 1936976-1936983 MARKED FREE
BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS
SALVAGE? no

ALLOCATED FILE 5740857 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FRAG 22922007 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FILE 5792561 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FILE 5856663 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FILE 5875155 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FRAG 23448111 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FILE 5970461 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FRAG 23889647 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FILE 6077762 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FRAG 24353503 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FRAGS 26021808-26021813 MARKED FREE
ALLOCATED FRAGS 26301688-26301690 MARKED FREE
1534559 files, 15746410 used, 21222026 free (2172530 frags, 2381187 blocks,
5.9% fragmentation)
** /dev/ad0s1d (NO WRITE)
** Last Mounted on /var
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames
** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity
** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts
UNREF FILE I=8278  OWNER=mysql MODE=100600
SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 19:13 2006
CLEAR? no

UNREF FILE I=8301  OWNER=mysql MODE=100600
SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 19:13 2006
CLEAR? no

UNREF FILE I=8306  OWNER=mysql MODE=100600
SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 19:13 2006
CLEAR? no

UNREF FILE I=25696  OWNER=root MODE=140666
SIZE=0 MTIME=Apr  1 19:13 2006
CLEAR? no

** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups
3681 files, 59732 used, 67107 free (1275 frags, 8229 blocks, 1.0%
fragmentation)

 cat dmesg output
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=1ILLEGAL_LENGTH
LBA=139102367
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE
LBA=139102368
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=1ILLEGAL_LENGTH
LBA=139102369
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=1ILLEGAL_LENGTH
LBA=139102370
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=1ILLEGAL_LENGTH

Re: Help! Hard disk problems

2006-01-02 Thread Anthony M . Agelastos


On Jan 1, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote:


Hello all,

In doing some routine items on my FreeBSD box, it started behaving  
oddly. I rebooted and to my surprise, I started receiving many  
messages displaying information regarding that /usr has issues. It  
puts me directly into single user mode and tells me to run fsck  
manually. When I run fsck all by itself, here is what it tells me:


** /dev/ad0s1f
** Last Mounted on /usr
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=496000
UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

CLEAR? [yn]

This is the first time that I have ever run fsck and I have no idea  
what this message means or what the best course of action on CLEAR  
to take. Any input at all would be greatly appreciated (FreeBSD 6.0- 
STABLE if it helps). Thank you all so much for your assistance.


-Anthony



After not getting any feedback, I decided to do

fsck -y

This returned my machine to usable. Before doing this while I was  
just hitting y to the questions I did not understand, one of them  
mentioned that it had to create a lost+found directory and after a  
while that the directory was out of space. It asked me the question  
to expand. So, I hit yes. Anyways, after all is said and done, that  
filesystem has 500MB of more free space than it did before (it  
doesn't take into account the fact that /usr/src is now empty and the  
size of lost+found). What does the expand option do? Can I safely  
delete lost+found? Like I mentioned before, this is my first time in  
going through these types of issues and I have not found any  
documentation that I can fully understand on fsck and what it does.  
In any event, thank you all for your assistance.


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Re: Help! Hard disk problems

2006-01-02 Thread Anthony M . Agelastos


On Jan 2, 2006, at 10:31 AM, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote:



On Jan 1, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Anthony M. Agelastos wrote:


Hello all,

In doing some routine items on my FreeBSD box, it started behaving  
oddly. I rebooted and to my surprise, I started receiving many  
messages displaying information regarding that /usr has issues. It  
puts me directly into single user mode and tells me to run fsck  
manually. When I run fsck all by itself, here is what it tells me:


** /dev/ad0s1f
** Last Mounted on /usr
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=496000
UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

CLEAR? [yn]

This is the first time that I have ever run fsck and I have no  
idea what this message means or what the best course of action on  
CLEAR to take. Any input at all would be greatly appreciated  
(FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE if it helps). Thank you all so much for your  
assistance.


-Anthony



After not getting any feedback, I decided to do

fsck -y

This returned my machine to usable. Before doing this while I was  
just hitting y to the questions I did not understand, one of them  
mentioned that it had to create a lost+found directory and after a  
while that the directory was out of space. It asked me the question  
to expand. So, I hit yes. Anyways, after all is said and done, that  
filesystem has 500MB of more free space than it did before (it  
doesn't take into account the fact that /usr/src is now empty and  
the size of lost+found). What does the expand option do? Can I  
safely delete lost+found? Like I mentioned before, this is my first  
time in going through these types of issues and I have not found  
any documentation that I can fully understand on fsck and what it  
does. In any event, thank you all for your assistance.


Also, what methods are there in backtracking what the cause of the  
errors could have been? How can I tell if there is something wrong  
with the hard disk (bad blocks that cannot be used anymore, etc.)? I  
suppose what I intend to gather by these questions is if this drive  
can still be trusted, or if I should start looking at getting a new  
one. Any insight would be appreciated.

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Help! Hard disk problems

2006-01-01 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos

Hello all,

In doing some routine items on my FreeBSD box, it started behaving  
oddly. I rebooted and to my surprise, I started receiving many  
messages displaying information regarding that /usr has issues. It  
puts me directly into single user mode and tells me to run fsck  
manually. When I run fsck all by itself, here is what it tells me:


** /dev/ad0s1f
** Last Mounted on /usr
** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes
UNKNOWN FILE TYPE I=496000
UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY

CLEAR? [yn]

This is the first time that I have ever run fsck and I have no idea  
what this message means or what the best course of action on CLEAR to  
take. Any input at all would be greatly appreciated (FreeBSD 6.0- 
STABLE if it helps). Thank you all so much for your assistance.


-Anthony


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Hard Disk problems when installing FreeBSD 5.3BETA7

2004-11-01 Thread Odhiambo Washington

{REVISED POST}


Hello experts,

I have experienced so much problems installing  FreeBSD 5.3BETA7 I guess
it's time for me to ask the experts.


I have two disks:

1. Maxtor (DiamondMax Plus 9)
   120GB ATA/133
   Mfg Date: 30 Jan 2004
   Code: YAR41BW0
   E-H011-02-3880 (3.5 SERIES)

2. Western Digital (WD800) EIDE Drive
   80GB
   WD Caviar
   MDL: WD800LB-00DNA0
   Mfg Date: 19 Jan 2004
   DCM: HSBHCVJAH

Motherboard: VIA VT8233.


Those are as much as I can read on the disks.

Now my woes:

I have tried more than 20 times installing FreeBSD 5.3 on these disks.
I have tried this since 5.3BETA1 all the way to 5.3BETA7, hoping at
each stage that I will get lucky.

Always things fail. After the disk label stage, I choose the minimal
distro and commit. That is when I get the message that I must create
at least the root and swap partitions.
Ordinarily, I want to install like this (take the 80GB disk):

74GB = /
2GB = swap

What I am presented with is just 76GB.

Even for the 120 GB disk:

112GB = /
  2GB = swap

Here what I am presented with is 114GB.


The reason I want to partition like that is because I have another old
box with 36GB that kinda I managed to install 5.3 on. It's now running
5.3-RELEASE and it was partitioned the same way. I simply want to tar
it up, move the tarball to my problematic box and extract, then change
a few things in fstab and rc.conf and have a machine to enjoy!

Note that during labelling, I have even used the Auto option. The
thing still fails when it comes to newfs!!!

I have left the BIOS setting as AUTO as well as LBA.
I have even changed the disk geometry on the partition editor to match
what the BIOS thinks is correct.
I have even attempted to manually commit my changes at the disk label
stage.
Whatever I do, the installation does not succeed! I sometimes end up
installing, but when it comes to mounting the root partition on reboot
(after install finishes), the thing fails.
I have even flashed my Award BIOS by getting latest firmware from
esupport.com and US $25.
That is how much I would like to run 5.3.


Do I get any errors at all?

On Main Console:

No root device found - you must label a partition as / in the label
editor

[I press Enter]

No swap devices found  - you should create at least one sap partition
 blah ..

[I press Enter again]

Couldn't make filesystems properly. Aborting.


On vtys - Alt+F2:


DEBUG: ioctl (3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (Success)
DEBUG: Add mapping for /dev/cuaa0 to sl0
DEBUG: Add mapping for /dev/cuaa1 to sl0
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem
DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions


And that's it. I have checked all the vtys, and the msg is the same.



Someone please tell me that this has nothing to do with the BIOS at all.
Winblows apparently has no problems at all installing on these disks,
but I hate to use Microshit as a yard stick.

What shall I do???



-Wash

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Re: usb v1.1 external 2.0 hard disk problems with FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE

2003-11-20 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jesse Guardiani wrote:

 Howdy list,
 
 I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. I just bought a generic
 USB 1.1/2.0/firewire external drive enclosure for my 32gb
 Travelstar 12.5mm hard drive.
 
 The device shows up like this:
 
 Nov 18 14:06:16 trevarthan kernel: umass0: Acer Labs USB 2.0 Storage
 Device, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 3 Nov 18 14:06:16 trevarthan kernel: da0 at
 umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Nov 18 14:06:17 trevarthan kernel: da0:
 USB 2.0 Storage Device 0100 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device Nov 18
 14:06:17 trevarthan kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers Nov 18 14:06:17
 trevarthan kernel: da0: 30520MB (62506080 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T
 3890C)
 
 But `ls -al /dev/da*` reveals no slices:
 
 crw-r-  1 root  operator4,  22 Nov 18 13:35 /dev/da0
 
 The hard disk inside this enclosure was formatted with a 10gig
 FAT32 partition. It works fine in a Coolmax Gemini 2.5 USB 2.0/1.1
 drive enclosure, and it works fine in this enclosure as long as
 I'm running Windows XP. But it just doesn't want to work under
 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE for some reason...
 
 Does anyone have any clues to help get this drive working?

Anyone?

-- 
Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator
WingNET Internet Services,
P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605
423-559-LINK (v)  423-559-5145 (f)
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usb v1.1 external 2.0 hard disk problems with FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE

2003-11-18 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list,

I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. I just bought a generic
USB 1.1/2.0/firewire external drive enclosure for my 32gb
Travelstar 12.5mm hard drive.

The device shows up like this:

Nov 18 14:06:16 trevarthan kernel: umass0: Acer Labs USB 2.0 Storage Device, rev 
2.00/1.03, addr 3
Nov 18 14:06:16 trevarthan kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
Nov 18 14:06:17 trevarthan kernel: da0: USB 2.0 Storage Device 0100 Fixed Direct 
Access SCSI-0 device
Nov 18 14:06:17 trevarthan kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
Nov 18 14:06:17 trevarthan kernel: da0: 30520MB (62506080 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 
3890C)

But `ls -al /dev/da*` reveals no slices:

crw-r-  1 root  operator4,  22 Nov 18 13:35 /dev/da0

The hard disk inside this enclosure was formatted with a 10gig
FAT32 partition. It works fine in a Coolmax Gemini 2.5 USB 2.0/1.1
drive enclosure, and it works fine in this enclosure as long as
I'm running Windows XP. But it just doesn't want to work under
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE for some reason...

Does anyone have any clues to help get this drive working?

Thanks!

-- 
Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator
WingNET Internet Services,
P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605
423-559-LINK (v)  423-559-5145 (f)
http://www.wingnet.net


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