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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.csuohio.edu!stever From: stever@csuohio.edu (Steve Ratliff) Subject: Re: IDE drive problems - is it a bug? Message-ID: <1993Dec3.170624.14588@news.csuohio.edu> Sender: news@news.csuohio.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Cleveland State University X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 References: <2dl8s1$8v7@sun.rhbnc.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 3 Dec 1993 17:06:24 GMT Lines: 57 This is a known bug introduced with the 2.4 patchkit. Disklabel will not label a drive that doesn't already have a label. Catch22 The old (June93) workaround solution was to boot off the tiny or fixit floppies and initially disklabel a new drive with them. This is not a problem with earlier patchkits or later *BSD systems. I believe that the relevant broken code is in wd.c. simon@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk wrote: : Hi there, : I am having a spot of bother. I decided that 200M wasn't enough, : and finally treated myself to another 250M of harddisc. But after a chunk : of struggling I can't make it happen... : : I have 386BSD 0.1 with the 2.4 patchkit installed, on a Western : Digital WDAC2200 IDE drive. The kernel recognizes it as <WDC AC220F>. : Recompiling the kernel with the config lines : : : controller wd0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr : disk wd0 at wd0 drive 0 : disk wd1 at wd0 drive 1 : : in the configuration file. The kernel recognizes the new drive, an : IBM-H3256-A3 (badge-engineered?) drive as <H3256-A3>. But I can't disklabel : it. Every time I try it produces the errors : : disklabel: /dev/rwd1a: Invalid argument : : and then (from the system) : : [date+time+machine name] /386bsd: wd1: Cannot find label (no disk label) : : The devices wd0 and rwd0 are : : crw-r----- 1 root 3, 8 Dec 1 18:01 /dev/rwd1a : brw-r----- 1 root 0, 8 Sep 7 18:56 /dev/wd1a : : : : I have tried setting up a 1-drive system with the new drive, and as : wd0 it disklabels just fine, with correct parameters and then newfs's OK. I : have set it up as 2-drive and set up DOS on the second drive - FDISK seems : to have no problems. So I would guess that my hardware is OK. : : So what? Am I being like badly dumb? Or is it really a bug? : : Thanx : : Simon : : --- : "This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind" -Ecclesiastes 4:16 : : simon@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk | Not affiliated to any religion : simon@cs.rhbnc.ac.uk | Not affiliated to any politics : zhac149@vax.rhbnc.ac.uk | Not affiliated to any ideology : (+44/0)784 434568 (WET) | What does that make me?