Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 10:01:20 +2 From: "Irvine Short" <ishort@pcm.co.za> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bad pack magic number Message-ID: <199604260806.KAA03369@pcmgate.pcm.co.za>
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What do I do about this? I followed Seppo Kalio's instructions about adding another disk and ran fdisk. The output I got from fdisk was this when I had finished: We haven't changed the partition table yet. This is your last chance. parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2337 heads=4 sectors/track=71 (284 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2337 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Information from DOS bootblock is: 0: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 655360 (320 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 319/ sector 32/ head 63 1: <UNUSED> 2: <UNUSED> 3: <UNUSED> Should we write new partition table? [n] y bash# disklabel -e -r sd1 Bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) bash# I am using an Adaptec 1542B controller. This always gives 64 heads, 32 sectors, right? Where am I going wrong? Regards, Irvine Short http://www.pcm.co.za/homepage/ishort/irv_home.html Technical Support Professional Computer Manufacturers Cape Town, South Africa Tel: ++27-21-235084 Fax ++27-21-235089
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