From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 2 11: 8:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from po3.wam.umd.edu (po3.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3AD015027 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 11:08:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (root@rac10.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.150]) by po3.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA17539; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 14:08:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rac10.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA20309; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 14:08:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac10.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA20305; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 14:08:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: rac10.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 14:08:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: "Stevan S." Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: error reading primary partition table In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991002112550.0097ea70@mail.utexas.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Stevan S. wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The other day I was doing routine maintenance on my 3.2 system, I came > across an email the machine emailed me (root). In the email, it included > the message below. Can someone shed some light on this and what does it > mean? The system that I'm using is a Dell PII 350, 128 MB, 6GB HDD, CDROM, > Floppy, and a IDE zip drive. > > Thanks in advance. > Stevan > > > > merlin.austin.cc.tx.us kernel log messages: > > acd0: read_toc failed > > wfd0: tray open > > wfd0: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 > > wfd0: tray open > > wfd0: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 > > wfd0: tray open > > wfd0: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 > > wfd0: tray open > > wfd0: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 > > wfd0: tray open > > wfd0: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 > > wfd0: tray open > > wfd0: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 > > wfd0: tray open > > wfd0: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 > Most likely this just means that there is no disk in your IDE Zip. ================================================================= | Kenneth Culver | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: AgRSkaterq | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park. | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| ================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message