From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 10 1:34:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.resfeber.se (Resfeber-gw.customer.internet5.net [195.66.48.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA4D37B422 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 01:34:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon.molin@resfeber.se) Received: from resfeber.se ([212.75.72.9]) by mail2.resfeber.se (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA14905 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:25:41 +0200 Message-ID: <3AD2C61F.E9F8EF1E@resfeber.se> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:36:47 +0200 From: Jon Molin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding a new drive References: <3ACD6E95.9AF73435@resfeber.se> <20010406030353.A28772@cec.wustl.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Hesford wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 10:17:24AM +0200, Jon Molin wrote: > > The -I option gives the same output: > > jmo# fdisk -I ad3 > > ******* Working on device /dev/ad3 ******* > > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found > > jmo# disklabel -B -w -r ad3s1 auto > > disklabel: /dev/ad3s1: Device not configured > > > > /jon > > [snip] > Why don't you try this: re-zero the device, just to make sure it's > clean, then give fdisk another go. If it fails, re-zero it again, and > try to use Windows fdisk (or even Linux) to partition the drive. If > neither one succeeds, you know the disk got trashed, and your failure is > most likely a coincidence. If one *does* succeed, then save the MBR, put > the disk in your FreeBSD box, and edit the existing MBR with the FreeBSD > fdisk. > -- > Andrew Hesford > ajh3@chmod.ath.cx When i first got the disk it was windows and i was able to mount and get the data from it. Then i used freebsd fdisk and all 'dispeared'. Then i used a slackware bootdisk to get fdisk there and was able to make it a bsd partition, but when i booted back to freebsd and tried to slice it it didn't work... And i got the devices there: # ls /dev/ad3* /dev/ad3 /dev/ad3e /dev/ad3s1a /dev/ad3s1f /dev/ad3s4 /dev/ad3a /dev/ad3f /dev/ad3s1b /dev/ad3s1g /dev/ad3b /dev/ad3g /dev/ad3s1c /dev/ad3s1h /dev/ad3c /dev/ad3h /dev/ad3s1d /dev/ad3s2 /dev/ad3d /dev/ad3s1 /dev/ad3s1e /dev/ad3s3 /jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message