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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!news.sgi.com!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!portc01.blue.aol.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!icrt.demon.co.uk!lerland From: "Lars G. Erlandsen" <lerland@icrt.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help: FreeBSD 2.1 'mount' fails on a 2.0 SCSI partition Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 07:01:57 +0100 Organization: Inter-Connect RealTime Ltd Lines: 41 Distribution: world Message-ID: <jw$q9HAV3w9xEwyy@icrt.demon.co.uk> References: <Hc3d6BAgq$4xEwMa@icrt.demon.co.uk> <4sa2ta$gce@godzilla.zeta.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: icrt.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: icrt.demon.co.uk MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Newsreader: Turnpike Version 1.11 <0$M+ltNrbQ$Y$ryVKqcUZpyKB5> Further to everybody's help, I have now managed, in no small part thanks to everybody's help, to restore my data. Reading through **ALL** the supplied documentation, I eventually found the small print from Jordan, warning people of incompatibility problems and panic's if trying to mount 2.0 partitions. This tied in with people advising me that the partitions looked ok, however, the 'd' partition was gone in 2.1, and I could probably get away with hand-editing the disktab info, and write it back. In the end I decided to settle for safety. Last weekend I removed all other hard drives except the SCSI drive, turned off LBA, cleaned out an IDE drive completely, made two partitions (one MSDOS, one BSD), re- installed my 5.25" floppy drive (my 3.5" boot floppy image on the FreeBSD 2.0 CDROM was corrupted), created 5.25" boot floppies, installed a minimum FreeeBSD 2.0 from the two floppies, booted it, manually mounted the DOS partition, and then the SCSI partitions. That done, I tar'ed the relevant directories without compression (no compression available without installing yet more software) to the DOS partition. Then I re-built the machine back up again, copied the data over to several other partitions, verified it in many ways, and only then did I drop the SCSI partitions. I've now got a fully working FreeBSD 2.1 system. The installation of that was the smaller job in the end. FreeBSD is still not happy about booting from a SCSI disk, but I've just created the root partition on an IDE disk, and manage that way. The tcp also seems very slow on interactive work with lots of little packets, as if it is ignoring the setsockopt(,,TCP_NODELAY) call I make. However, the system is tight, compact, sturdy, and very responsive in every other way. A tape drive is now on my 'must have' list. I wonder why...? Lars G. Erlandsen, Inter-Connect RealTime Ltd. email lerland@icrt.demon.co.uk