[j-nsp] Hard Disk Replacement - M5

[Vladislav Vasilev]

I guess I am going for the PCMCIA method.

Thanks.

Regards,
V.Vasilev

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Alex <alex.arseniev at gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe if you reinstall FreeBSD on this disk (minimal install will do) it
> will be recognised by "request system partition".
> HTH
> Regards
> Alex
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vladislav Vasilev"
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> To: <juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 1:13 AM
> Subject: [j-nsp] Hard Disk Replacement - M5
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>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to replace a hard drive on an old M5 running JunOS 6.2.
>> The RE installs the drive which can be seen from the following output:
>>
>> root at M5> show system boot-messages
>>
>> ad0: 91MB <SanDisk SDCFB-96> [734/8/32] at ata0-master using PIO1
>> ad1: 11513MB <IBM-DARA-212000> [23392/16/63] at ata0-slave using UDMA33
>> Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
>>
>> The problem is that the RE won't partition it:
>>
>> root at M5> request system partition hard-disk
>> mount: /dev/ad1s1e: Device not configured
>> ERROR: Can't access hard disk, aborting partition.
>>
>> The hard drive had been erased with dd.
>>
>> Has anyone come across this problem? Am I missing something here?
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Kind Regards,
>> V. Vasilev
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