Hi.
I'm on 10.0-RELEASE, on amd64.
I have this problem with a home server I recently put together. Some of the hard drives came from some old computers and I suspect at least one of them is not feeling too good. But the machine boots and works anyway, I can access my zpools and so on.
But what I cannot do is anything involving partitioning. Whatever gpart(8) command I try to run I get the error message:
This means that I can't look at partition tables and can't create partitions (at least not using gpart(8)). If I try to create a new partition table I get the message:
I noticed there is a bug report which seems to be about this same exact thing, but it is from a year and a half ago (PR 178684).
Does anyone know what the cause of this problem is? I'm pretty sure it's one disk which is busted somehow, but why would this prevent me from listing partitions on another disk? Is this a feature?
On a related note: is it safe to hot-plug/unplug SATA hard drives? If it is, it would make this problem much less painful to investigate further.
I'm on 10.0-RELEASE, on amd64.
I have this problem with a home server I recently put together. Some of the hard drives came from some old computers and I suspect at least one of them is not feeling too good. But the machine boots and works anyway, I can access my zpools and so on.
But what I cannot do is anything involving partitioning. Whatever gpart(8) command I try to run I get the error message:
Code:
Cannot get GEOM tree: Illegal byte sequence
Code:
gpart: Autofill: Illegal byte sequence
Does anyone know what the cause of this problem is? I'm pretty sure it's one disk which is busted somehow, but why would this prevent me from listing partitions on another disk? Is this a feature?
On a related note: is it safe to hot-plug/unplug SATA hard drives? If it is, it would make this problem much less painful to investigate further.