From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 6 5:35:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monterosa.urbanet.ch (monterosa.urbanet.ch [195.202.193.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 33F5114D5A for ; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 05:35:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ahmed_benani@urbanet.ch) Received: (qmail 32743 invoked from network); 6 Dec 1999 13:35:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?195.202.204.137?) (195.202.204.137) by monterosa.urbanet.ch with SMTP; 6 Dec 1999 13:35:02 -0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express for Macintosh - 4.01 (295) Date: Mon, 06 Dec 1999 14:33:55 +0100 Subject: Re : Re : trying to format IDE disk From: "Ahmed Benani" To: rene@xs4all.nl, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <19991206133505.33F5114D5A@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ---------- >De=A0: "Ahmed Benani" >=C0 : rene@xs4all.nl, questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Objet=A0: Re : trying to format IDE disk >Date=A0: Lun 6 d=E9c 1999 1:37 > >STOP SENDING YOUR MESSAGES I RECEIVED MORE THAN 200 PER DAY AND I NEVER >SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR LIST: THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION >ahmed_benani@urbanet.ch >---------- >>De=DD: rene@xs4all.nl >>=BF : questions@FreeBSD.ORG >>Objet=DD: trying to format IDE disk >>Date=DD: Dim 5 d=C8c 1999 19:38 >> > >>Hello questions, >> >> I'm trying to format this 10G IDE disk I have lying around here >> doing nothing... I'm also a complete newbie to freeBSD ;) >> >> I tried running the following command, but don't quite get the >> error-messages it passes me; can anyone gimme any hints here? >> >>router# fdisk /dev/wd2 >>fdisk: can't open device /dev/wd2 >>fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/wd2: Input/output error >>router# Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: can't handle 272 heads from >>partition table (truncating to 16) >>Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: can't handle 272 heads from partitio= n >>table (truncating to 16) >>Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: cannot handle 319 sectors (max 255) >>Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: cannot handle 319 sectors (max 255) >>Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: wdcontrol: recal failed reading fsbn= 0 >>(status 50 error 0) >>Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: wdcontrol: recal failed reading fsbn= 0 >>(status 50 error 0) >>Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: error reading primary partition tabl= e >>reading fsbn 0 >>Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: error reading primary partition tabl= e >>reading fsbn 0 >> >> >> appendix I : dmesg output >> >>dmesg >>Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. >>Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 >> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. >>FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #0: Fri May 28 06:41:37 CEST 1999 >> rene@router.outerheaven.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/MESSENGER-EXPERIMENT= AL >>Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz >>Timecounter "TSC" frequency 167045960 Hz >>CPU: Pentium/P55C (167.05-MHz 586-class CPU) >> Origin =3D "GenuineIntel" Id =3D 0x543 Stepping=3D3 >> Features=3D0x8001bf >>real memory =3D 67043328 (65472K bytes) >>avail memory =3D 62296064 (60836K bytes) >>Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02c7000. >>Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: >>chip0: rev 0x04 on pci0.0.0 >>chip1: rev 0x04 on pci0.1.0 >>chip2: rev 0x00 on pci0.3.= 0 >>chip3: rev 0xc3 on pci0.7.0 >>ahc0: rev 0x00 int a irq 5 on pci0.10.0 >>ahc0: aic7880 Single Channel A, SCSI Id=3D7, 16/255 SCBs >>vga0: rev 0x01 int a irq 10 on pci0= .11.0 >>xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> rev 0x30 int a irq 11 on pci0.12.= 0 >>xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:5a:c0:33:b3 >>xl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 100Mbps) >>ide_pci0: rev 0xc1 >>int a irq 0 on pci0.15.0 >>Probing for devices on PCI bus 1: >>Probing for PnP devices: >>Probing for devices on the ISA bus: >>sc0 on isa >>sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=3D0x0> >>atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard >>atkbd0 irq 1 on isa >>psm0 not found >>sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa >>sio0: type 16550A >>sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa >>sio1: type 16550A >>fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa >>fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold >>fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in >>wdc0 not found at 0x1f0 >>wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa >>wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): >>wd2: 173536MB (355401728 sectors), 4096 cyls, 272 heads, 319 S/T, 512 B/S >>wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): , removable, iordy >>acd0: drive speed 689KB/sec, 128KB cache >>acd0: supported read types: CD-DA >>acd0: Audio: play, 128 volume levels >>acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray >>acd0: Medium: CD-ROM unknown medium, unlocked >>wt0 not found at 0x300 >>mcd0 not found at 0x300 >>matcdc0 not found at 0x230 >>scd0 not found at 0x230 >>ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa >>ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode >>ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/7 bytes threshold >>lpt0: on ppbus 0 >>lpt0: Interrupt-driven port >>ppi0: on ppbus 0 >>plip0: on ppbus 0 >>ep0 not found at 0x300 >>vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa >>npx0 on motherboard >>npx0: INT 16 interface >>Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle >>changing root device to da0s1a >>da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 >>da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device >>da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled >>da0: 2063MB (4226725 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 263C) >>wd2: can't handle 272 heads from partition table (truncating to 16) >>wd2: cannot handle 319 sectors (max 255) >>wd2: wdcontrol: recal failed reading fsbn 0 (status 50 erro= r 0) >>wd2: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 >> >> >> >> >>Greetings, >> rene >> >> >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message