From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 12 03:05:16 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 4101216A403 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 03:05:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: from web60018.mail.yahoo.com (web60018.mail.yahoo.com [209.73.178.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7176D43D46 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 03:05:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petermatulis@yahoo.ca) Received: (qmail 67608 invoked by uid 60001); 12 Mar 2006 03:05:14 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.ca; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=qiwX+s3eJtwPKOYdW2rlEG+TwbsHxfvmhcV5cWsTm2so9kLMgWbx+FdgCa57yJe4rLnHSGvMaeZH37mmUrI+fV3NfqaVr4872unhrCTe3wgjXG5gQwnp9DH3o9EbSvhX3XqsdlKxLLCSvhQGDzyVazZ1N5YWQ3dR8Yk6NrUzq+4= ; Message-ID: <20060312030514.67606.qmail@web60018.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.252.85.175] by web60018.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:05:14 EST Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:05:14 -0500 (EST) From: Peter To: freebsd-questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: "cg 0: bad magic number" [used to be "Disappointed with version 6.0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 03:05:16 -0000 Ok, I have narrowed down my problem a great deal. It appears that FreeBSD cannot read the partition table of my 300 GB Seagate Barracuda. My dos diagnostic utility works because it accesses the disk in a different way. I used the entire disk (one slice/partition) and attempted to format it. This is what I get after it reaches the end of the disk: "cg 0: bad magic number" It also slows down significantly about 3/4 through the procedure. Now the funny part. I create two partitions and the newfs output is exactly the same as before when I try to format the first partition! It tries to format as if there is only one partition and produces the same error. If I remove the slice via sysinstall and then try fdisk I get this: # fdisk -vBI ad3 ******* Working on device /dev/ad3 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=581421 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=581421 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Information from DOS bootblock is: 1: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 586072305 (286168 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 812/ head 15/ sector 63 2: 3: 4: fdisk: Geom not found Anyone? -- Peter __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com