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Date:      Sun, 5 May 1996 10:53:26 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        scanner@webspan.net
Subject:   Re: Disklabel is hosed
Message-ID:  <199605050853.KAA27275@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199605050023.JAA09309@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "May 5, 96 09:52:59 am"

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As Michael Smith wrote:

> > Can someone PLEASE tell me wtf happened to my disklabels :)
> > My HD's appear to work but the interleave and rpm and a few things are 
> > set to 0. I have no clue how this happened or how to fix it.
> 
> The numbers are irrelevant, ignore them.

The numbers are irrelevant, but don't ignore them.

You have to fill in bogus values, like interleave = 1, rpm = 3600.
Early versions of libdisk (including 2.1R) didn't do this.

This is easy to correct with ``disklabel -e''.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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