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Date:      Sat, 03 Oct 1998 20:24:36 -0500
From:      Chris Csanady <ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Partition weirdness..
Message-ID:  <199810040124.UAA04660@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu>

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I have a couple of partitions that have been behaving somewhat odd.  Also,
I have gotten a number of messages recently (from newfs--i think), about
not being able to rewrite the disklabel.  Has anyone else been seen this?

On 2 of my bios partitions, I can not write to the second sector.  Doing
so will cause the following:

friley-185-114:/# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda0s4e bs=512 count=1 seek=1
dd: /dev/rda0s4e: Read-only file system

If I seek past 2 sectors, or only write the first sector, I have no
trouble.  Does anyone know what might be causing this?  My disklabel,
and fdisk output follow..

******* Working on device /dev/rda0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=393 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=393 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 63, size 1445787 (705 Meg), flag 80 (active)
        beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
        end: cyl 89/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 2104515, size 2104515 (1027 Meg), flag 0
        beg: cyl 131/ sector 1/ head 0;
        end: cyl 261/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 4209030, size 2104515 (1027 Meg), flag 0
        beg: cyl 262/ sector 1/ head 0;
        end: cyl 392/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 1445850, size 658665 (321 Meg), flag 0
        beg: cyl 90/ sector 1/ head 0;
        end: cyl 130/ sector 63/ head 254


# /dev/rda0s4c:
type: SCSI
disk: da0s4
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 255
sectors/cylinder: 16065
cylinders: 41
sectors/unit: 658665
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  c:   658665        0    unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 40)
  e:    65536        0    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 - 4*)
  f:   593129    65536    4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    4*- 40*)


Thanks,
Chris Csanady




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