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Date:      Mon, 28 Oct 2002 16:46:39 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   DIOCGDINFO, DIOCGSLICEINFO fail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0210281642040.85194-100000@root.org>

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World and kernel from today.  newfs_msdos, disklabel both fail on these
ioctls.

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moe# uname -a
FreeBSD moe 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #9: Mon Oct 28 15:23:20 PST
2002     nate@moe:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MOEPRO  i386

moe# ls -l /sbin/disklabel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  166184 Oct 28 07:47 /sbin/disklabel

moe# fdisk da0
******* Working on device /dev/da0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=4471 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=4471 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 63, size 49994217 (24411 Meg), flag 80 (active)
        beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
        end: cyl 39/ head 254/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>

moe# disklabel da0s1
disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device

[Another drive, fdisk'd for an msdos fat32 partition]
moe# newfs_msdos /dev/da0s4
newfs_msdos: ioctl (GSLICEINFO): Inappropriate ioctl for device
newfs_msdos: /dev/da0s1: can't get slice info

-Nate


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