Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:08:07 -0800 (PST) From: scott renna <flexble2547@yahoo.com> To: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Creating a FAT32 on new drive... Message-ID: <20041117220807.93642.qmail@web53608.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041117135330.T37664@bsd.billschoolcraft.com>
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I believe it's partition type 11. Check this out: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html I tried, this method and yeah, windows can't read it :( booooo. I'm working on another method though now. --- Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com> wrote: > hello family, > > I have some drives that I've brought home for > repair. > > I have a Promise IDE controller installed with dual > ports and two > 36" IDE ribbons attached to the Promise controller > and snaking out > an open CDROM slot, along with a powersupply leads. > > My FreeBSD box boots fine, the Promise card shows up > and my first > drive came up as /dev/ad5. > > I used "sysinstall" to delete the old partitions and > now need to > simple create one big "FAT32" partition/drive and > see if things > work when this drive is placed back into a machine > at work. > > I saw no options for FAT32 in the "sysinstall" menus > of fdisk and > was wondering if I can whip this drive into shape > via command > line. Thanks. > > -- > Bill Schoolcraft > PO Box 210076 > San Francisco,CA 94121 > http://billschoolcraft.com > > "We can find no wealth above a healthy body and a > happy heart." > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com
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