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Date:      Sat, 4 Aug 2001 08:31:24 -0700
From:      Fred Condo <fred@condo.chico.ca.us>
To:        TPalfi <tomaspalfi@madasafish.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dangerously dedicated disks
Message-ID:  <20010804083124.B15513@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us>
In-Reply-To: <NFBBKDMPGLPHAAHADDGKKEAFCAAA.tomaspalfi@madasafish.com>; from tomaspalfi@madasafish.com on Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 04:21:41PM %2B0100
References:  <NFBBKDMPGLPHAAHADDGKKEAFCAAA.tomaspalfi@madasafish.com>

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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)?

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