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Date:      Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:26:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: partition errors 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980302122356.19148B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199801150635.AAA00275@gforce.bellsouth.net>

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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Glenn Johnson wrote:

> > > > > wd2s1: raw partition size != slice size
> > > > > wd2s1: start 63, end 32255, size 32193
> > > > > wd2s1c: start 63, end 1056383, size 1056321
> > > > > wd2s1: truncating raw partition
> > > > > wd2s1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice
> > Hm, something must be miscalculating the gemoetry so badly that the
> > disklabel numbers are out of bounds.  Is there anything else on this disk?
> > If not you might try dedicated mode.  

> I did try dedicated mode. That was my first choice. Then I tried
> non-dedicated mode and that did not work either. The only way I could
> get a successful newfs was to have a small DOS partition on the drive;
> but then I got the error messages above. 

This is strange; the disklabel is not being written properly.  I'd like to
see theouptut of the following:

dmesg
fdisk wd2
disklabel /dev/rwd2s1

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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