From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 6 5:52:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp3.andrew.cmu.edu (SMTP3.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.10.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36CC637B422 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 05:52:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unix11.andrew.cmu.edu (UNIX11.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.15.15]) by smtp3.andrew.cmu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA05239 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:52:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:52:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Gregory C Schohn To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk won't work on new hard drives can't get Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am trying to partition the disks with ideally a small dos partition that I may need for some other OS down the road and a large FreeBSD one. However, I haven't had ANY success with fdisk or disklabel. I'm using an fdisk that was last edited August 27th. I have altogether 4 scsi disks connected to the machine right now. Its only the 18GB ones that are messed up (I have 2 4GB ones that look & act fine). I trussed the fdisk runs on each, & its making the same calls on each, so all that I can figure is that the devices aren't doing the correct consistent things... Oh, I tried using fdisk -I & here's what I got > fdisk -I /dev/da1 ******* Working on device /dev/da1 ******* fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found :( thanks alot, Greg On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > Gregory C Schohn wrote: > > 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). > > First of all, make sure you have the latest fdisk. There were some bugs > in it that have since been fixed. Secondly, what are you trying to > accomplish exactly? If you are trying to blow away the existing mbr > and start from scratch, try 'fdisk -I '. > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message