Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 13:26:28 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: nate@sri.MT.net (Nate Williams) Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Fdisk questions? Message-ID: <199604040356.NAA24350@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199604040200.TAA15535@rocky.sri.MT.net> from "Nate Williams" at Apr 3, 96 07:00:54 pm
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Nate Williams stands accused of saying: > > Any attempts to write to the partition table and/or the MBR are > completely un-successful, and I have no idea. Nothing in the BIOS > allows me disable/enable writing the MBR or partition table, so it's not > a BIOS thing AFAIK. Also, I can see where fdisk writes to the hard-disk This includes "Virus protection" stuff in the BIOS? > (the disk indicator flashes), so something is being written. I also > tried 'pfdisk' to no avail, which gives the same symptoms of OS-BS and > the normal DOS/Win95 fdisk programs. Biiizarre. Remind me not to buy one of these 8( > On my PC, I simply fdisk away with no cause for concern, so I'm not sure > why it's such a pain on my co-workers box. The only difference is that > on my box I'm still using the original 'NEC' installed hard-disk, while > my co-worker's has been wiped and started over clean. What happens if you boot the FBSD install disk, use the slice editor there, hit 'write' and then reboot? Does it still not 'take'? > Nate -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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