[OpenIndiana-discuss] Garbage being printed by format command?

[Ben Taylor]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy at karlsbakk.net> wrote:
>> I had done an OI install onto a PATA disk. After reboot, I followed a
>> howto to convert the rpool into a mirror, and it seems to all work.
>> However, when I run the format command, I see this:
>>
>> AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
>> 0. c1d0 <ð¦äþäþPp¸nHãþ®ÈpÀ…äþð¦äþäþppØn0"ãþõ cyl 19454 alt 2 hd 255
>> sec 63>
>> /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 4/ide at 0/cmdk at 0,0
>> 1. c1d1 <ð¦äþäþPp¸nHãþ®ÈpÀ…äþð¦äþäþppØn0"ãþõ cyl 19454 alt 2 hd 255
>> sec 63>
>> /pci at 0,0/pci-ide at 4/ide at 0/cmdk at 1,0
>>
>> Does it seem like I hosed the label or something? I can boot from this
>> rpool and everything *seems* to work. Not sure if I should be
>> concerned
>> or not?
>
> I've seen something similar at times, but never seen actual problems. Doublecheck that it boots from both side of the mirror - just remove the primary and try...


I can confirm the same thing on an AMD Athlon XP with PATA
controllers.  I was trying to dump some
data off the second disk, and noticed the same issue.

Ben