From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 18 11:30:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CCC214ECD for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:28:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ken@bolingbroke.com) Received: from localhost (ken@localhost) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (Pro-8.9.3/Pro-8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA07026 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:28:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:28:46 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke X-Sender: ken@fremont.bolingbroke.com To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "very dangerously dedicated mode" is In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've always been able to 'fix' dangerously dedicated IDE disks by running DOS's fdisk with the /mbr switch. That overwrites the MBR, and at least puts it back into a state friendly with other operating systems... Ken Bolingbroke hacker@bolingbroke.com On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Jim Shankland wrote: > > :By the way, I also struck out with DOS fdisk: it took one look > :at the garbage partition table, and wedged. I'll be trying a > :Linux rescue disk next. If that fails, too, then I seem to > :have generated a 1-Gigabyte hockey puck (you didn't think I > :was trying this with a new disk, did you)? > > If it were SCSI I'd say plug it in to the nearest adaptec controller and > low level it (I fixed a drive one of my SGI's ate like this), but it's > IDE. You might want to give NT or OS/2 a whack at it if you've got them > laying around. There are programs to let you low level IDE drives out > there, I believe they're mostly DOS based though, so that probably doesn't > help. > > Jamie Bowden > > -- > > "Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, > Microsoft is different from any other software company..." > Kenneth G. Cavness > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message