I've searched the archives, can find no reference to our
particular problem. We have two alphaserver 400s running DU 4.0.
# sizer -v
Digital UNIX V4.0B (Rev. 564); Thu Oct 9 16:43:11 EDT 1997
I've tried adding two separate seagate disks to these two systems -
an ST32430N and an ST15150N. I can disklabel them - for example:
# disklabel -z rz3
# disklabel -rw rz3 seagate
# disklabel -r rz3
# /dev/rrz3a:
type: SCSI
disk: ST32430N
label:
but when I do a newfs on them, it takes forever and the system nearly
hangs. It has taken 36 minutes to do the following:
1617440, 1634416, 1651392, 1668368, 1685344, 1702320, 1719296, 1736272,
1753248, 1770224, 1787200, 1804176, 1821152, 1838128, 1855104, 1872080,
1887008, 1903984, 1920960, 1937936, 1954912, 1971888, 1988864, 2005840,
2022816, 2039792, 2056768, 2073744, 2090720, 2107696, 2124672, 2141648,
2156576, 2173552, 2190528, 2207504, 2224480, 2241456, 2258432, 2275408,
and a login I began at the beginning of that 36 minutes has only gotten
this far:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Password:
Last login: Tue Dec 23 09:28:40 from wukon.appliedthe
Digital UNIX V4.0A (Rev. 464); Thu Oct 9 15:58:44 EDT 1997
The installation software has successfully installed your system.
There are logfiles that contain a record of your installation.
These are:
/var/adm/smlogs/install.cdf - configuration description file
/var/adm/smlogs/install.log - general log file
/var/adm/smlogs/install.FS.log - file system creation logs
/var/adm/smlogs/setld.log - log for the setld(8) utility
/var/adm/smlogs/fverify.log - verification log file
myhost> pwd
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
It is hanging on the pwd right now. Is there some known problem with newfs
on this version of the OS? Has anyone else experienced this, and is there
a fix?
These disks are not huge odd geometries - basic 2 and 4 GB disks.
TIA
--
Judith Reed
jreed_at_appliedtheory.com
Received on Tue Dec 23 1997 - 16:32:36 NZDT