Re: Can't fdisk newly installed disks

Jerry McAllister wrote: > > It can prevent you from making almost any changes. A secure level of 3 > is very high and may be what you want for your production - depending > on what you are doing, but will make any installation or development > very difficult or impossible. > > jerry > That'

Re: Can't fdisk newly installed disks

Simon Gao writes: > Is there other way to reduce secure level to -1 without reboot the > machine or drop into single user mode? As I understand it: no. And that's a carefully considered choice. Robert Huff

Re: Can't fdisk newly installed disks

Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:48:29AM -0700, Simon Gao wrote: > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> On 13/08/07, Simon Gao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, I am running into some problem with fdisk newly installed drives.

Re: Can't fdisk newly installed disks

On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 11:48:29AM -0700, Simon Gao wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 13/08/07, Simon Gao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am running into some problem with fdisk newly installed drives. > >> > > . . . > > > >> # fdisk -BI da5 > >> fdisk: cannot

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Wojciech Puchar wrote: > does anything else works. > like > dd if=/dev/disk of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1 > > > Yes. # dd if=/dev/da5 of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 1048576 bytes transferred in 0.155479 secs (6744167 bytes/sec) > > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Simon Gao wrote: >

Re: Can't fdisk newly installed disks

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 13/08/07, Simon Gao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am running into some problem with fdisk newly installed drives. >> > . . . > >> # fdisk -BI da5 >> fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/da5: No such file or directory >> > > What is your secureleve

Re: Can't fdisk newly installed disks

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 11:32:40PM -0700, Simon Gao wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 05:38:04PM -0700, Simon Gao wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I am running into some problem with fdisk newly installed drives. > >> > >> >From boot message, these drives are found w

Re: Can't fdisk newly installed disks

On 13/08/07, Simon Gao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am running into some problem with fdisk newly installed drives. . . . > # fdisk -BI da5 > fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/da5: No such file or directory What is your securelevel? For example: % sysctl kern.securelevel kern.securelevel: -1

Re: Can't fdisk newly installed disks

does anything else works. like dd if=/dev/disk of=/dev/null bs=1m count=1 On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Simon Gao wrote: Hi, I am running into some problem with fdisk newly installed drives. From boot message, these drives are found without problem: da3 at mpt0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 da3: Fixed D

Re: Can't fdisk newly installed disks

Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 05:38:04PM -0700, Simon Gao wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> I am running into some problem with fdisk newly installed drives. >> >> >From boot message, these drives are found without problem: >> >> da3 at mpt0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 >> da3: Fixed Direct A

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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Simon Gao wrote: [snip] The system runs FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. Have you considered updating to something a little less long in the tooth? 5.2.1 hasn't been officially supported for some time now, and these problems may have been solved in the last three years. Just sa

Re: Can't fdisk newly installed disks

On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 05:38:04PM -0700, Simon Gao wrote: > Hi, > > I am running into some problem with fdisk newly installed drives. > > >From boot message, these drives are found without problem: > > da3 at mpt0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 > da3: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device > da3: 160.000MB/