Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 08:47:19 +0200 From: Jon Molin <jon.molin@resfeber.se> To: Crist Clark <cjclark@alum.mit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a new drive Message-ID: <3ACAC377.A5D5D55@resfeber.se> References: <200103290938.f2T9c1l00499@bluebox.naken.cc> <3AC347D6.1ED5F0A2@resfeber.se> <20010329165129.A60101@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> <3AC34FC7.F53209CC@resfeber.se> <3AC386CA.157C141B@alum.mit.edu> <3AC4301F.3AD7B9D0@resfeber.se> <3AC4F61D.AA89E26F@alum.mit.edu> <3AC81F4F.7D9F5E08@resfeber.se> <3AC8BFEC.FE50DDA1@alum.mit.edu> <3AC9825A.85062A7D@resfeber.se> <3ACA0500.A2E74DDD@alum.mit.edu>
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Crist Clark wrote: > > Jon Molin wrote: > > [snip] > > > jmo# fdisk -IB ad2 > > > > ******* Working on device /dev/ad2 ******* > > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found > > That's what I would expect. There is no error generated when writing. > If the write failed, I would expect to see, > > "fdisk: can't write fdisk partition table" > > One other thing that I noticed while reviewing the code, the '-B' > option does nothing when the '-I' option is specified. But that does > not explain why, I just copied it from the 'adding a new drive' section from the frrbsd handbook without really checking the flags, but yes -B seems redundant. > > > jmo# fdisk ad2 > > > > ******* Working on device /dev/ad2 ******* > > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > > cylinders=13410 heads=15 sectors/track=63 (945 blks/cyl) > > > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > > cylinders=13410 heads=15 sectors/track=63 (945 blks/cyl) > > > > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found > > Media sector size is 512 > > Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 > > Information from DOS bootblock is: > > The data for partition 1 is: > > <UNUSED> > > The data for partition 2 is: > > <UNUSED> > > The data for partition 3 is: > > <UNUSED> > > The data for partition 4 is: > > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > > start 63, size 12672387 (6187 Meg), flag 80 (active) > > beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; > > end: cyl 97/ sector 63/ head 14 > > Your disk is not getting the slice table written. You still get an > error that the table is invalid and the slice table is not correct. > What happens if you try to enter it interactively with the '-i' > option? We are either overlooking something obvious or something > very odd is going on. I've tried the fdisk -i earlier but did it again now and nothing happends. It seems like everything works really fine but when i check the result afterwards nothing has changed (i've included a file again since it's such a long output). I''m really clueless here, especially since i know the disk isn't broken. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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