From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 5 02:51:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA06646 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 May 1996 02:51:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA06634 for ; Sun, 5 May 1996 02:51:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id LAA11136; Sun, 5 May 1996 11:51:08 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA22106; Sun, 5 May 1996 11:51:08 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA27275; Sun, 5 May 1996 10:53:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199605050853.KAA27275@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Disklabel is hosed To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 5 May 1996 10:53:26 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: scanner@webspan.net Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199605050023.JAA09309@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "May 5, 96 09:52:59 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL15 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Michael Smith wrote: > > Can someone PLEASE tell me wtf happened to my disklabels :) > > My HD's appear to work but the interleave and rpm and a few things are > > set to 0. I have no clue how this happened or how to fix it. > > The numbers are irrelevant, ignore them. The numbers are irrelevant, but don't ignore them. You have to fill in bogus values, like interleave = 1, rpm = 3600. Early versions of libdisk (including 2.1R) didn't do this. This is easy to correct with ``disklabel -e''. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)