From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 31 19:42:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A42E816A420 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:42:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7E9C43D6E for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:42:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from riemann.math.jussieu.fr (riemann.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.3]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.6/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k2VJgNFR013760 ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:42:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 166 Received: from grobner2.math.jussieu.fr (grobner2.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.119]) by riemann.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.6/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k2VJgKOK077081 ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:42:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from grobner2.math.jussieu.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by grobner2.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.1/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k2VJgKFa031194 ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:42:20 +0200 Received: (from jas@localhost) by grobner2.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k2VJgJ67031193; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:42:19 +0200 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:42:19 +0200 From: Albert Shih To: Albert Shih Message-ID: <20060331194219.GB27567@math.jussieu.fr> References: <20060330232822.GA31890@math.jussieu.fr> <200603310119.k2V1JHac007725@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20060331043416.GA82252@math.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20060331043416.GA82252@math.jussieu.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Score: -1.44 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 134.157.13.3 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.7.2 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.166]); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 21:42:23 +0200 (CEST) X-Antivirus: scanned by sophie at shiva.jussieu.fr X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 442D861F.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Cc: Jerry McAllister , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: formating a disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: shih@math.jussieu.fr List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 19:42:29 -0000 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: > 3: > 4: > 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