cannot partition HP 73GB disks

[Anton Shterenlikht]

Trying to install FBSD 8.0-snapshot 200906 on 73GB HP scsi disks:

da0 at mpt0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <HP 73.4G ST373454LC HPC2> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da0: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit)
da0: Command Queueing Enabled
da0: 70007MB (143374738 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C)
da1 at mpt0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0
da1: <HP 73.4G ST373454LC HPC2> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
da1: 320.000MB/s transfers (160.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit)
da1: Command Queueing Enabled
da1: 70007MB (143374738 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 8924C)


and partition name appears only as "X" in disklabel editor: 


                         FreeBSD Disklabel Editor

Disk: da0               Free: 0 blocks (0MB)

Part      Mount          Size Newfs   Part      Mount          Size Newfs
----      -----          ---- -----   ----      -----          ---- -----
X         /efi          100MB EFI   Y
X         /             512MB UFS2   Y
X         swap         4055MB SWAP
X         /var         3051MB UFS2+S Y
X         /tmp          512MB UFS2+S Y
X         /usr        61776MB UFS2+S Y


automatic or manual - doesn't matter, all partitions are named X,
and the installation fails with "cannot create partition /dev/X" or
similar.

With some seagate 17GB disks works fine.

Please advise

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