Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 20:07:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Gregory C Schohn <gcs@andrew.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: fdisk won't work on new hard drives can't get Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96L.1000905200510.25345A-100000@unix11.andrew.cmu.edu>
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hi - I've recently purchased 2 different 18GB scsi drives (a barracuda & a
cheetah, but the layout of the disks are identical). For the past month,
I've not been able to get partitions laid on them that FreeBSD is willing
to notice correctly (w/ disklabel & fdisk).
I've tried a lot of different things. Originally I tried writing the
partition information w/ sysinstall - that didn't work, then I tried fdisk
w/ -u (& -i -u) & that didn't work. Each time that I wrote the values out
- the light would flicker on the disk, but the partition table wasn't
changed (presumably some other sector was changed).
I've upgraded my machine a couple of times (& I'm going to be doing it
once more now) & replaced /dev/MAKEDEV & the affiliated disks (da1 & da2)
- yet I still can't get this to work...
Here's the output from fdisk on the drives (I had successfully partitioned
them under solaris86 which is why the solaris partitions are there).
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
******* Working on device /dev/da2 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=2181 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=2181 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 130,(Linux swap or Solaris x86)
start 5136, size 5125728 (2502 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 0/ sector 34/ head 81;
end: cyl 311/ sector 18/ head 97
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 6,(Primary 'big' DOS (> 32MB))
start 5128816, size 30414368 (14850 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 311/ sector 19/ head 97;
end: cyl 164/ sector 18/ head 166
The data for partition 3 is:
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 1, size 35037764 (17108 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 2/ head 0;
note - I didn't put the 4th partition on - it continues to tell me
that that parition exists - even though solaris (when I ran the installer)
knew of only the first 2.
Also - when I step through the sysinstall utility & try to make slices
after I lay the partitions, it tells me that the devices aren't
configured.
It seems like my devices are hosed, but they've been rebuilt.
when I try running disklabel on one of these disks
disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument
& device not configured when I try it on the slices.
If anybody has any idea how I can fix this - please let me know - I've
been searching the mailing lists & web for a LONG time. Also - please be
sure to reply to me, as I'm not back on the stable mailing list yet (I
will be when my machine is back up & from the upgrades).
thanks,
Greg
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