From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 17 22:08:09 2004 Return-Path: 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 2810D16A4CE for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:08:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web53608.mail.yahoo.com (web53608.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.37.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B66E943D2F for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:08:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flexble2547@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 93644 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Nov 2004 22:08:07 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=q8M6gowRvGByIqzm6uvpRRvTGRZVQ58yPejIERcyXY6hUlclPzzr9moDVk0SwXD0uaaT0Bj6uEc+NUJpoLAhJNd9IFcappkLbMB/Lgo0ULUrUyHUDNLa8McKERYD/VgtNbj42dSWsrky0tveQQZvdRlO/bvbLFWyOkmX7uovtlw= ; Message-ID: <20041117220807.93642.qmail@web53608.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [68.100.162.26] by web53608.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:08:07 PST Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:08:07 -0800 (PST) From: scott renna To: Bill Schoolcraft , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20041117135330.T37664@bsd.billschoolcraft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Creating a FAT32 on new drive... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 22:08:09 -0000 I believe it's partition type 11. Check this out: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html I tried, this method and yeah, windows can't read it :( booooo. I'm working on another method though now. --- Bill Schoolcraft wrote: > hello family, > > I have some drives that I've brought home for > repair. > > I have a Promise IDE controller installed with dual > ports and two > 36" IDE ribbons attached to the Promise controller > and snaking out > an open CDROM slot, along with a powersupply leads. > > My FreeBSD box boots fine, the Promise card shows up > and my first > drive came up as /dev/ad5. > > I used "sysinstall" to delete the old partitions and > now need to > simple create one big "FAT32" partition/drive and > see if things > work when this drive is placed back into a machine > at work. > > I saw no options for FAT32 in the "sysinstall" menus > of fdisk and > was wondering if I can whip this drive into shape > via command > line. Thanks. > > -- > Bill Schoolcraft > PO Box 210076 > San Francisco,CA 94121 > http://billschoolcraft.com > > "We can find no wealth above a healthy body and a > happy heart." > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Meet the all-new My Yahoo! - Try it today! http://my.yahoo.com