Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 11:50:29 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: lukek <lukek@meibin.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is this disk toast ? Message-ID: <3F48DEC5.9070802@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <000601c369ef$6f727c60$080aa8c0@yujo> References: <00d801c3698c$aa559820$230aa8c0@MAGOME> <20030823232831.GA4596@rot13.obsecurity.org> <000601c369ef$6f727c60$080aa8c0@yujo>
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lukek wrote: > I have tried re-formatting this disk and even whacked it into a winblows box > with the hope of writing out another partition table but no luck thus far. > > Can someone give me some ideas on what to do about this ? Start my making sure your machine has the latest BIOS flashed, then check whether you can set the drive to "LBA" mode rather than, say, "auto". If your hardware is having problems identifying the drive geometry properly, this may help. Then use /stand/sysinstall to repartition the disk, although you could also use FDISK from DOS as a last resort. Sometimes creating a small (10MB) DOS partition before installing FreeBSD also helps resolve disk geometry problems. [ If you can't partition the drive even via MS-DOS' FDISK, you most likely have a hardware problem. ] -- -Chuck
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