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At Fri, 9 Mar 2007 16:08:29 -0500,
David W. Rankin Jr. wrote:
>=20
> I wanted to follow-up on this again, since the discussion has been quiet
> a few days. I found that the SCSI cable in my Dell was bad, and replaced
> it, but this has NOT fixed my ld0 issue. Even with the fix, I can install
> 4.0 Beta 2 onto the machine with the RAID adapter turned off, but I
> cannot install onto ld0. sysinst won't see the disk. fdisk returns
> DIOCGDEFLABEL: Inappropriate ioctl for device, but will write an
> MBR and partition information when asked. I can even write a disklabel
> and newfs a filesystem.

Hmm..... that's somewhat similar to the way the HP-NetRAID-4m behaves in
my Dell 2650.

	http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-i386/2007/03/01/0005.html

Can you try reading from the ld0 device, e.g. from a shell started from
sysinst and confirm that you can read actual data, and not just zeros?

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