Subject: Re: gpt on NetBSD_4.0BETA2
To: Andreas Wrede <andreas@planix.com>
From: Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch@kollasch.net>
List: current-users
Date: 07/20/2007 17:56:00
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 05:23:19PM -0400, Andreas Wrede wrote:
> I am trying to use gpt to create a GUID partition table on a 3TB Xserve=
=20
> RAID:
>=20
> # gpt create /dev/sd0d
> gpt: unable to open device 'sd0d': Invalid argument
>=20
> I assume this because in sys/dev/scsipi/sd.c does not set the properties=
=2E =20
> In -current, rev 1.260 of sd.c adds sd_set_properties(). (4.0BETA's sd.=
c is=20
> at rev 1.258).
>=20
> Is that all that's needed to get gpt to work on sd(4) type devices? If s=
o,=20
> maybe that change can be pulled up to the 4.0 branch?
Yes, a backport is trivial, I've actually done it. I don't see why it coul=
dn't
go into netbsd-4.
Also, you may want the appropriate gpt stuff for dk in the kernel:
options DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER
options DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT
Jonathan Kollasch
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