From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 30 23:28:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 57D7216A427 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:28:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 214B843D5F for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:28:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from riemann.math.jussieu.fr (riemann.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.3]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.6/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k2UNSPlX028978 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:28:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 164 Received: from grobner2.math.jussieu.fr (grobner2.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.119]) by riemann.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.6/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k2UNSNHE016678 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:28:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from grobner2.math.jussieu.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by grobner2.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.1/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k2UNSMD9032146 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:28:23 +0200 Received: (from jas@localhost) by grobner2.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k2UNSMv1032145 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:28:22 +0200 Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:28:22 +0200 From: Albert Shih To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060330232822.GA31890@math.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Score: -1.44 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on 134.157.13.3 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.164]); Fri, 31 Mar 2006 01:28:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Antivirus: scanned by sophie at shiva.jussieu.fr X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 442C6999.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Subject: formating a disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: shih@math.jussieu.fr List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:28:43 -0000 Hi all I've strange problem with a external disk (firewire). I don't know how I can format it. I've already format this disk (on my FreeBSD box with newfs), after that I re­format this disk with Windows XP (maybe bad idea ;-) ) and now I cannot format the disk with anything When I try fdisk [root@freebsd1 rc.d]# fdisk -BI da0 ******* Working on device /dev/da0 ******* fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found fdisk: Geom not found [root@freebsd1 rc.d]# If I try to use sysinstall I can make a slice, but when I want to format the disk I go a error. If I try to format directly (without slice) it's working but I cannot mount the disk. Anyone can help me ? NB: The disk work..because I reformat it under windows XP. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. Heure local/Local time: Fri Mar 31 01:28:14 CEST 2006