Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 08:52:27 -0400 (EDT) From: Gregory C Schohn <gcs@andrew.cmu.edu> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk won't work on new hard drives can't get Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96L.1000906085047.1148A-100000@unix11.andrew.cmu.edu>
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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 <disk>'. > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- 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
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