From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 23 16:03:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA21532 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:03:32 -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 QAA21520 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:03:25 -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 PAA24952; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:46:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:46:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: James Gardiner cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <001c01bd4018$b0dabd40$6b580cca@encoder.planetx.com.au> 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 Mon, 23 Feb 1998, James Gardiner wrote: > I have a problem with a HD in that when I try to label it, the machine locks > up. > > The kernel shows the drive as follows. > ------------- > Feb 23 05:11:11 pixel /kernel: wd2: 4110MB (8418816 sectors), 14848 cyls, 9 > head > s, 63 S/T, 512 B/S What brand/model? Are you sure you're labelling the right device? Did you check http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/? 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