Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:42:19 +0200 From: Albert Shih <shih@math.jussieu.fr> To: Albert Shih <shih@math.jussieu.fr> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: formating a disk Message-ID: <20060331194219.GB27567@math.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <20060331043416.GA82252@math.jussieu.fr> References: <20060330232822.GA31890@math.jussieu.fr> <200603310119.k2V1JHac007725@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20060331043416.GA82252@math.jussieu.fr>
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Le 31/03/2006 à 06:34:16+0200, Albert Shih a écrit > Le 30/03/2006 20:19:17-0500, Jerry McAllister a écrit > > > > > > > I wonder what exactly you mean by 'format'. > > We don't tend to use that word to mean making slices (fdisk), > > partitions (disklabel/bsdlabel) or file systems (newfs). > > > > Usually format refers to something done at the very low leval of > > the drive and is normally only done at the manufacturer nowdays. > > I expect you mean one or more of the others, but cannot say. > > > > But, anyway, that is what you need to do - in that order. > > fdisk, disk/abel/bsdlabel, newfs > > > > So, try and explain what you have done using these utilities if > > you have and if you haven't, then check them out and see if > > that helps. If you really did a "format" under XP, then I think > > you can just start over with fdisk, but I haven't tried that on > > a hard disk much less a firewire device. > > First I try to edit the slice with fdisk but when he need to write I've > got > > Information from DOS bootblock is: > 1: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 63, size 156296322 (76316 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 1/ head 1/ sector 1; > end: cyl 512/ head 254/ sector 63 > 2: <UNUSED> > 3: <UNUSED> > 4: <UNUSED> > Should we write new partition table? [n] y > fdisk: Geom not found > [root@freebsd1 rc.d]# > > What's that mean ? > How can I fix that ? > I answer to myself After dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1k count=100 it's ... not working but after dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1k count=100000 everything work fine. Thanks. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10 Heure local/Local time: Fri Mar 31 21:41:04 CEST 2006
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