Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:33:29 -0500 From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: Eric Sabban <eric@clickrebates.com>, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0 sysinstall fails to recognize disks Message-ID: <38DAD3F9.E0EBD80B@confusion.net> References: <200003231554.HAA01743@mass.cdrom.com> <200003231750.JAA02133@apollo.backplane.com> <38DA5ADE.27FD7481@clickrebates.com> <200003231806.KAA02333@apollo.backplane.com>
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I just had to do that a few days ago, but it didn't work. Apparently DOS is very stupid, and without dding the entire DOS partition it wouldn't work. Who knows why. Low-levels are a bad idea. I know someone who managed to ruin a number of disks trying that. Laurence Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :I normally wouldn't recommend it. But the same situation with a different (not to be mentioned) OS happened to me. > :After hours of being frustrated, I decided the scsi controller went south. A cow-orker told me to LL the drive, > :and voila, magic. These were IBM LVD 10kRPM drives, brand spankin new. I'd recommend updating sysinstall first, if > :that doesn't work, LL the drives. > : > :-eric > > I really doubt that LLing the drive fixed your problem. You probably > did something else while messing around that wound up fixing it. > > The simple answer when someone approaches you on the street and suggests > that you can fix the world by LLing your hard drive, is "NO" :-). > > The worst I've ever had to do to a drive to make the system recognize > it is zero-out the first few sectors with dd. That way the system > believes that the drive does not have a valid label and lets you install > a new one trivially. > > -Matt > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 The above email Copyright (C) 2000 Laurence Berland All rights reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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