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Date:      Mon, 06 Dec 1999 14:33:55 +0100
From:      "Ahmed Benani" <ahmed_benani@urbanet.ch>
To:        rene@xs4all.nl, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re : Re : trying to format IDE disk
Message-ID:  <19991206133505.33F5114D5A@hub.freebsd.org>

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>De=A0: "Ahmed Benani" <ahmed_benani@urbanet.ch>
>=C0 : rene@xs4all.nl, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Objet=A0: Re : trying to format IDE disk
>Date=A0: Lun 6 d=E9c 1999 1:37
>

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>ahmed_benani@urbanet.ch
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>>De=DD: rene@xs4all.nl
>>=BF : questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>>Objet=DD: trying to format IDE disk
>>Date=DD: Dim 5 d=C8c 1999 19:38
>>
>
>>Hello questions,
>>
>>  I'm trying to format this 10G IDE disk I have lying around here
>>  doing nothing... I'm also a complete newbie to freeBSD ;)
>>
>>  I tried running the following command, but don't quite get the
>>  error-messages it passes me; can anyone gimme any hints here?
>>
>>router# fdisk /dev/wd2
>>fdisk: can't open device /dev/wd2
>>fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/wd2: Input/output error
>>router# Dec  6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: can't handle 272 heads from
>>partition table (truncating to 16)
>>Dec  6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: can't handle 272 heads from partitio=
n
>>table (truncating to 16)
>>Dec  6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: cannot handle 319 sectors (max 255)
>>Dec  6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: cannot handle 319 sectors (max 255)
>>Dec  6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: wdcontrol: recal failed reading fsbn=
 0
>>(status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 0)
>>Dec  6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: wdcontrol: recal failed reading fsbn=
 0
>>(status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 0)
>>Dec  6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: error reading primary partition tabl=
e
>>reading fsbn 0
>>Dec  6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: error reading primary partition tabl=
e
>>reading fsbn 0
>>
>>
>>  appendix I : dmesg output
>>
>>dmesg
>>Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc.
>>Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>>        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>>FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #0: Fri May 28 06:41:37 CEST 1999
>>    rene@router.outerheaven.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/MESSENGER-EXPERIMENT=
AL
>>Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
>>Timecounter "TSC"  frequency 167045960 Hz
>>CPU: Pentium/P55C (167.05-MHz 586-class CPU)
>>  Origin =3D "GenuineIntel"  Id =3D 0x543  Stepping=3D3
>>  Features=3D0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX>
>>real memory  =3D 67043328 (65472K bytes)
>>avail memory =3D 62296064 (60836K bytes)
>>Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02c7000.
>>Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
>>chip0: <AcerLabs M1541 (Aladdin-V) PCI host bridge> rev 0x04 on pci0.0.0
>>chip1: <AcerLabs M5243 PCI-PCI bridge> rev 0x04 on pci0.1.0
>>chip2: <PCI to 0x80 bridge (vendor=3D10b9 device=3D7101)> rev 0x00 on pci0.3.=
0
>>chip3: <AcerLabs M1533 portable PCI-ISA bridge> rev 0xc3 on pci0.7.0
>>ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 5 on pci0.10.0
>>ahc0: aic7880 Single Channel A, SCSI Id=3D7, 16/255 SCBs
>>vga0: <S3 ViRGE DX/GX graphics accelerator> rev 0x01 int a irq 10 on pci0=
.11.0
>>xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> rev 0x30 int a irq 11 on pci0.12.=
0
>>xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:5a:c0:33:b3
>>xl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 100Mbps)
>>ide_pci0: <Acer Aladdin IV/V (M5229) Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0xc1
>>int a irq 0 on pci0.15.0
>>Probing for devices on PCI bus 1:
>>Probing for PnP devices:
>>Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
>>sc0 on isa
>>sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=3D0x0>
>>atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard
>>atkbd0 irq 1 on isa
>>psm0 not found
>>sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
>>sio0: type 16550A
>>sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
>>sio1: type 16550A
>>fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
>>fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
>>fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
>>wdc0 not found at 0x1f0
>>wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa
>>wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): <IBM-ETUA-351111 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !>
>>wd2: 173536MB (355401728 sectors), 4096 cyls, 272 heads, 319 S/T, 512 B/S
>>wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): <HITACHI CDR-7730/0008a>, removable, iordy
>>acd0: drive speed 689KB/sec, 128KB cache
>>acd0: supported read types: CD-DA
>>acd0: Audio: play, 128 volume levels
>>acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray
>>acd0: Medium: CD-ROM unknown medium, unlocked
>>wt0 not found at 0x300
>>mcd0 not found at 0x300
>>matcdc0 not found at 0x230
>>scd0 not found at 0x230
>>ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa
>>ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
>>ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/7 bytes threshold
>>lpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
>>lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
>>ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0
>>plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0
>>ep0 not found at 0x300
>>vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa
>>npx0 on motherboard
>>npx0: INT 16 interface
>>Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
>>changing root device to da0s1a
>>da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
>>da0: <IBM DORS-32160 S82C> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
>>da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
>>da0: 2063MB (4226725 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 263C)
>>wd2: can't handle 272 heads from partition table (truncating to 16)
>>wd2: cannot handle 319 sectors (max 255)
>>wd2: wdcontrol: recal failed reading fsbn 0 (status 50<rdy,seekdone> erro=
r 0)
>>wd2: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Greetings,
>> rene <mailto:rene@xs4all.nl>
>>
>>
>>
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