RE: 3Ware 9500 and disklabel

Can you try booting off the installation CD/floppies and running
sysinstall from there?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Philip Murray
> Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 3:06 AM
> To: freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> Cc: Harald Schmalzbauer
> Subject: Re: 3Ware 9500 and disklabel
> 
> 
> Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> 
> >Am Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2004 11:01 schrieb Philip Murray:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I'm trying to test out -CURRENT (22/7/2004) on a dual Opteron (Tyan
> >>board) with a 3Ware 9500-8 raid controller and I'm having 
> problems with
> >>disklabel.
> >>
> >>At the moment I have a RAID0 array totalling 600GB. I 
> fdisk'd them to
> >>create a single partition using the entire volume, fdisk (from
> >>sysinstall) complained about the geometry, I wasn't sure what the
> >>correct geometry was, so I forged ahead anyway.
> >>
> >>Then I went to try and disklabel it. It seemed to work from 
> sysinstall
> >>until I went to write the changes out and it complained 
> "ERROR: Unable
> >>to write data to disk da0!'. So I tried disklabel on the 
> command line, as
> >>so
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >AFAIK geom only prevents you from direct access to disks 
> where your kernel 
> >booted from. In your case it is ad4 and I think da1 
> shouldn't be affected but 
> >perhaps you want to set the sysctl kern.geom.debugflags to 16.
> >
> >  
> >
> Trying to use disklabel from sysinstall with those geom flags 
> resulted 
> in a panic, I got the following trace from the debugger:
> 
> panic: spoiling cp->ace = 1
> cpuid = 1;
> KDB: enter: panic
> [thread 100081]
> Stopped at      kdb_enter+0x2f: nop
> db> trace
> kdb_enter() at kdb_enter+0x2f
> panic() at panic+0x210
> g_spoil() at g_spoil+0x7a
> g_access() at g_access+0x1fb
> g_dev_open() at g_dev_open+0x11b
> spec_open() at spec_open+0x330
> spec_vnoperate() at spec_vnoperate+0x14
> vn_open_cred() at vn_open_cred+0x364
> kern_open() at kern_open+0x109
> syscall() at syscall+0x40e
> Xfast_syscall() at Xfast_syscall+0xa8
> --- syscall (5, FreeBSD ELF64, open), rip = 0x50ebc0, rsp = 
> 0x7fffffffd838, rbp = 0x7dd780 ---
> db>
> 
> I don't know anything more useful I can do than that, so if there is 
> something tell me. However, I have managed to somehow lockup 
> the serial 
> console so I can't do anymore until tomorrow.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Philip
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