Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:16:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Gregory C Schohn <gcs@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk won't work on new hard drives can't get Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009061015250.26880-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96L.1000906085047.1148A-100000@unix11.andrew.cmu.edu>
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Gregory C Schohn wrote: > I am trying to partition the disks with ideally a small dos partition > that I may need for some other OS down the road and a large FreeBSD one. > However, I haven't had ANY success with fdisk or disklabel. > > I'm using an fdisk that was last edited August 27th. I have altogether 4 > scsi disks connected to the machine right now. Its only the 18GB ones > that are messed up (I have 2 4GB ones that look & act fine). I trussed > the fdisk runs on each, & its making the same calls on each, so all that I > can figure is that the devices aren't doing the correct consistent > things... > > Oh, I tried using fdisk -I & here's what I got > > fdisk -I /dev/da1 > ******* Working on device /dev/da1 ******* > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found That's OK; -I just installed a new partition table with slice 1 as an entire FreeBSD slice. Run 'fdisk da1' and see that a new freebsd slice is there. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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