Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 10:14:40 -0700 From: Crist Clark <cjclark@alum.mit.edu> To: Jon Molin <jon.molin@resfeber.se> Cc: Crist Clark <cjclark@alum.mit.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a new drive Message-ID: <3ACA0500.A2E74DDD@alum.mit.edu> References: <200103290938.f2T9c1l00499@bluebox.naken.cc> <3AC347D6.1ED5F0A2@resfeber.se> <20010329165129.A60101@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <3AC34FC7.F53209CC@resfeber.se> <3AC386CA.157C141B@alum.mit.edu> <3AC4301F.3AD7B9D0@resfeber.se> <3AC4F61D.AA89E26F@alum.mit.edu> <3AC81F4F.7D9F5E08@resfeber.se> <3AC8BFEC.FE50DDA1@alum.mit.edu> <3AC9825A.85062A7D@resfeber.se>
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Jon Molin wrote: [snip] > jmo# fdisk -IB ad2 > > ******* Working on device /dev/ad2 ******* > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found That's what I would expect. There is no error generated when writing. If the write failed, I would expect to see, "fdisk: can't write fdisk partition table" One other thing that I noticed while reviewing the code, the '-B' option does nothing when the '-I' option is specified. But that does not explain why, > jmo# fdisk ad2 > > ******* Working on device /dev/ad2 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=13410 heads=15 sectors/track=63 (945 blks/cyl) > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=13410 heads=15 sectors/track=63 (945 blks/cyl) > > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found > Media sector size is 512 > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > Information from DOS bootblock is: > The data for partition 1 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 2 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 3 is: > <UNUSED> > The data for partition 4 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 12672387 (6187 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > end: cyl 97/ sector 63/ head 14 Your disk is not getting the slice table written. You still get an error that the table is invalid and the slice table is not correct. What happens if you try to enter it interactively with the '-i' option? We are either overlooking something obvious or something very odd is going on. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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