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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


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