From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 5 17:12:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4F6B37B422 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:12:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA38525; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:12:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200009060012.RAA38525@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: fdisk won't work on new hard drives can't get In-Reply-To: from Gregory C Schohn at "Sep 5, 2000 08:07:23 pm" To: Gregory C Schohn Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:12:26 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gregory C Schohn wrote: > hi - I've recently purchased 2 different 18GB scsi drives (a barracuda & a > cheetah, but the layout of the disks are identical). For the past month, > I've not been able to get partitions laid on them that FreeBSD is willing > to notice correctly (w/ disklabel & fdisk). First of all, make sure you have the latest fdisk. There were some bugs in it that have since been fixed. Secondly, what are you trying to accomplish exactly? If you are trying to blow away the existing mbr and start from scratch, try 'fdisk -I '. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message