Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:33:29 -0500 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Eric Sabban <eric@clickrebates.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks Message-ID: <38DAD3F9.E0EBD80B@confusion.net> References: <200003231554.HAA01743@mass.cdrom.com> <200003231750.JAA02133@apollo.backplane.com> <38DA5ADE.27FD7481@clickrebates.com> <200003231806.KAA02333@apollo.backplane.com>
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I just had to do that a few days ago, but it didn't work. Apparently
DOS is very stupid, and without dding the entire DOS partition it
wouldn't work. Who knows why. Low-levels are a bad idea. I know
someone who managed to ruin a number of disks trying that.
Laurence
Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :I normally wouldn't recommend it. But the same situation with a different (not to be mentioned) OS happened to me.
> :After hours of being frustrated, I decided the scsi controller went south. A cow-orker told me to LL the drive,
> :and voila, magic. These were IBM LVD 10kRPM drives, brand spankin new. I'd recommend updating sysinstall first, if
> :that doesn't work, LL the drives.
> :
> :-eric
>
> I really doubt that LLing the drive fixed your problem. You probably
> did something else while messing around that wound up fixing it.
>
> The simple answer when someone approaches you on the street and suggests
> that you can fix the world by LLing your hard drive, is "NO" :-).
>
> The worst I've ever had to do to a drive to make the system recognize
> it is zero-out the first few sectors with dd. That way the system
> believes that the drive does not have a valid label and lets you install
> a new one trivially.
>
> -Matt
>
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--
Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate
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Windows 98: n.
useless extension to a minor patch release for
32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a
16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system
originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor,
written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for
1 bit of competition.
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