From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 6 14:21:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from front001.cluster1.charter.net (24-216-159-200.hsacorp.net [24.216.159.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB38237B422 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 14:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [24.217.6.97] (HELO dave.uhring.com) by front001.cluster1.charter.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2.4) with ESMTP id 18256747; Wed, 06 Sep 2000 17:21:29 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.uhring.com [127.0.0.1]) by dave.uhring.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06035; Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:20:38 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from duhring@charter.net) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 16:20:38 -0500 (CDT) From: Dave Uhring X-Sender: duhring@dave.uhring.com 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 I have had excellent success in partitioning IDE drives using the Linux fdisk found on the install CD's of Mandrake-6.0 and 6.1, not the later versions. Try booting one of these CD's and start an install. Either reset or 3-finger warm boot after completing the fdisk. As I say, this has worked well with IDE drives. YMMV. Good luck with it. Dave 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 > > :( > > thanks alot, > Greg > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message