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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: disklabel for ST15230N under 2.1.x-RELEASE
Date: 9 Aug 1996 06:33:14 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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jin@gracie.lbl.gov (Jin Guojun[ITG]) wrote:
> >> No No. I am talking the same type of disks. All the disks are in the
> >> same type Seagate HAWK 4.3 ST15230N
> >
> >You are self-condradictionary. Three postings before, you wrote that
> >they are ``apparently not'' identical.
> Oh, excuse me. I mean that "it ("dd") is not working". There were
> other things before, and said it should work. I guess that I put
> "not" at a wrong place.
Is it possible that your disks have a different total number of
blocks, despite being the same type? (I have seen this!)
You have posted your disktab, but not your default label. You can
obtain it with ``disklabel -r /dev/rsd1''. You can also pick
/sbin/disklabel from FreeBSD 2.1.5R or 2.2-current, and try to run
``disklabel -Brw sd1 auto'' to initially label the second disk. Have
a look there about the total number of blocks reported -- that's what
the disk reports about itself, and you get an error if you try to
extend this (for good reason, i think ;).
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)