From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 2 12:27:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03523 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:27:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03394 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:27:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA19185; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:26:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:26:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Glenn Johnson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition errors In-Reply-To: <199801150635.AAA00275@gforce.bellsouth.net> 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 Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > > wd2s1: raw partition size != slice size > > > > > wd2s1: start 63, end 32255, size 32193 > > > > > wd2s1c: start 63, end 1056383, size 1056321 > > > > > wd2s1: truncating raw partition > > > > > wd2s1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice > > Hm, something must be miscalculating the gemoetry so badly that the > > disklabel numbers are out of bounds. Is there anything else on this disk? > > If not you might try dedicated mode. > I did try dedicated mode. That was my first choice. Then I tried > non-dedicated mode and that did not work either. The only way I could > get a successful newfs was to have a small DOS partition on the drive; > but then I got the error messages above. This is strange; the disklabel is not being written properly. I'd like to see theouptut of the following: dmesg fdisk wd2 disklabel /dev/rwd2s1 Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message