From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 4 8:31:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe2.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-238-214.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net [63.207.238.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ACF237B401 for ; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 08:31:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred@absinthe2.dyndns.org) Received: (from fred@localhost) by absinthe2.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f74FVOj76459; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 08:31:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred) Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 08:31:24 -0700 From: Fred Condo To: TPalfi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dangerously dedicated disks Message-ID: <20010804083124.B15513@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from tomaspalfi@madasafish.com on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 04:21:41PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 04:21:41PM +0100, TPalfi wrote: > anyone with help, > > i have been given two disks (Seagate ST343442A and Fujitsu MPE3064AT). both > of them have been dangerously formated for freebsd 4.2. I would like to > reclaim them for my spare machine in which i would to fit at least one of > them. how do i get them going again. > > i have tried fdisk form /stand/sysinstall to recreate them but everything > failed. they were not my disks so i cannot tell exactly what happend with > them. i would like to start from scratch and reinstall 4.3 stable for my > home network. > > i have been fighting with them for quite a long time now and read every > entry in the mailgroups but nothing seem to match my case. What's the output of fdisk -t ad0 (or whatever device the disk is really on)? -- ______________________________________________________ ( fred@condo.chico.ca.us Repeal the DMCA. Free Dmitry. ) ------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message