Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:36:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Aggelos Economopoulos <aoiko@cc.ece.ntua.gr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot access disk Message-ID: <20020606123539.K55995-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <200206060907.02295.aoiko@cc.ece.ntua.gr>
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On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: > After adding a 40G ide disk(ad3) on my system, I 'ld like to devote some > extra space to FreeBSD (there is already a linux installation on the 40G > disk). However, after booting my -stable installation on the first > disk(ad0), I get the error message "excessive recursion in search for > slices" by the kernel on any attempt to access ad3 (mount a partition, > fdisk -s /dev/ad3, or even a read() on ad3). Try zeroing off the beginning of the disk with dd; maybe there's a corrupt partition table there. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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