From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 6 10:16:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EB8037B423 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:16:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e86HGdV53075; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:16:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 10:16:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Gregory C Schohn Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk won't work on new hard drives can't get In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Gregory C Schohn wrote: > I am trying to partition the disks with ideally a small dos partition > that I may need for some other OS down the road and a large FreeBSD one. > However, I haven't had ANY success with fdisk or disklabel. > > I'm using an fdisk that was last edited August 27th. I have altogether 4 > scsi disks connected to the machine right now. Its only the 18GB ones > that are messed up (I have 2 4GB ones that look & act fine). I trussed > the fdisk runs on each, & its making the same calls on each, so all that I > can figure is that the devices aren't doing the correct consistent > things... > > Oh, I tried using fdisk -I & here's what I got > > fdisk -I /dev/da1 > ******* Working on device /dev/da1 ******* > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found That's OK; -I just installed a new partition table with slice 1 as an entire FreeBSD slice. Run 'fdisk da1' and see that a new freebsd slice is there. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message