Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:48:13 -0700 From: "Foster, Jim" <JFOSTER@CSKAUTO.COM> To: "'Robert Wright'" <robert@pluris.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: disklabel not support on IDE drives? Message-ID: <BF4A830F5207D2119420006008A1DB147F082E@v128041.vandenberg.af.mil>
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Robert, I'm sorry that didn't help and this is quickly getting over my head ;-) Perhaps someone else can jump in at this point.... I just don't have that much experience with FreeBSD yet. > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Wright [SMTP:robert@pluris.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 3:18 AM > To: Foster, Jim > Subject: RE: disklabel not support on IDE drives? > > Jim, > > Thanks for getting back to me. I forgot to mention that one of the disks I > tried is the old 300mb WD that came with the PC. So the oversize drive > issue shouldn't crop up. Running disklabel -r -w wd0 auto from the fixit > floppy on either drive results in the same "not supported by this device" > message. Running disklabel -r -e wd0 opens the editor on the file but > fails > with the same message when I exit the editor and disklabel trys to write > the label to the disk. > > One thing that I find interesting is that when I run disklabel -r wd0 from > the floppy it says disk type unknown. When I runn it from the hard disk > after booting from the hard disk is says disk type ESDI. When I try to > force disklabel running from the floppy to treat the disk as an ESDI it > fails with the same message. > > Let me backtrack and explain what I am doing. I am practicing disaster > recovery techniques. I have a SCSI 4 mil tape drive (Seagate) installed. > And of course I have the dumps of the file systems. So now I am working > under the assumption that my old disk is toast and I have to create one > from scratch. Installed new disk and booted up on the boot floppy under > the > assumption that I could label and newsfs the disk and then restore from > tape. Which is where I am stuck. Disklabel simply won't work on either of > my disks. > > I did an full install from scratch using FTP from ftp.freebsd.org which > went fine as far as partitioning the disk and copying files to it. I have > some other issues about disk size and such that I am exploring under a > different thread. > > Robert > > At 10:37 AM 10/14/98 -0700, you wrote: > >I also have Western Digital disks, but I was able to install 2.2.7-R. > > > >If, perhaps, your motherboard does not support large hard drives you may > >need to reboot with the floppy that came with your drive (or download it > >from WD) and turn off the "floppy-protect" feature (or something like > that). > >It appears to be a feature they have in their boot manager for protecting > >the data on the hard drive if you boot off a DOS floppy without first > >loading their boot manager that patches the BIOS for large disk > >incompatibility. > > > >Hope this helps. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Robert Wright [SMTP:robert@pluris.com] > >> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 1:24 AM > >> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >> Subject: disklabel not support on IDE drives? > >> > >> I tried to use the disklabel utility from the fixit floppy to > repartition > >> my hard drive. When I enter disklabel -r -w wd0 auto I get "disklabel > not > >> supported by this device". I have tried this with two different Western > >> Digital disks. > >> > >> Any ideas? > >> > >> Robert > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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