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Date:      Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:28:22 +0200
From:      Albert Shih <shih@math.jussieu.fr>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   formating a disk
Message-ID:  <20060330232822.GA31890@math.jussieu.fr>

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Hi all

I've strange problem with a external disk (firewire). I don't know how I
can format it.

I've already format this disk (on my FreeBSD box with newfs), after that I
re­format this disk with Windows XP (maybe bad idea ;-) ) and now I cannot
format the disk with anything

When I try fdisk 

[root@freebsd1 rc.d]# fdisk -BI da0
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
fdisk: Geom not found
[root@freebsd1 rc.d]# 

If I try to use sysinstall I can make a slice, but when I want to format
the disk I go a error.

If I try to format directly (without slice) it's working but I cannot mount
the disk.

Anyone can help me ?

NB: The disk work..because I reformat it under windows XP.
--
Albert SHIH
Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)
U.F.R. de Mathematiques.
Heure local/Local time:
Fri Mar 31 01:28:14 CEST 2006



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