Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 19:38:51 +0100 From: rene@xs4all.nl To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: trying to format IDE disk Message-ID: <8818.991205@xs4all.nl>
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Hello questions,
I'm trying to format this 10G IDE disk I have lying around here
doing nothing... I'm also a complete newbie to freeBSD ;)
I tried running the following command, but don't quite get the
error-messages it passes me; can anyone gimme any hints here?
router# fdisk /dev/wd2
fdisk: can't open device /dev/wd2
fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/wd2: Input/output error
router# Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: can't handle 272 heads from partition table (truncating to 16)
Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: can't handle 272 heads from partition table (truncating to 16)
Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: cannot handle 319 sectors (max 255)
Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: cannot handle 319 sectors (max 255)
Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: wdcontrol: recal failed reading fsbn 0 (status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 0)
Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: wdcontrol: recal failed reading fsbn 0 (status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 0)
Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0
Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0
appendix I : dmesg output
dmesg
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FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #0: Fri May 28 06:41:37 CEST 1999
rene@router.outerheaven.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/MESSENGER-EXPERIMENTAL
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 167045960 Hz
CPU: Pentium/P55C (167.05-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x543 Stepping=3
Features=0x8001bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX>
real memory = 67043328 (65472K bytes)
avail memory = 62296064 (60836K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02c7000.
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0: <AcerLabs M1541 (Aladdin-V) PCI host bridge> rev 0x04 on pci0.0.0
chip1: <AcerLabs M5243 PCI-PCI bridge> rev 0x04 on pci0.1.0
chip2: <PCI to 0x80 bridge (vendor=10b9 device=7101)> rev 0x00 on pci0.3.0
chip3: <AcerLabs M1533 portable PCI-ISA bridge> rev 0xc3 on pci0.7.0
ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 5 on pci0.10.0
ahc0: aic7880 Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
vga0: <S3 ViRGE DX/GX graphics accelerator> rev 0x01 int a irq 10 on pci0.11.0
xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> rev 0x30 int a irq 11 on pci0.12.0
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:5a:c0:33:b3
xl0: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 100Mbps)
ide_pci0: <Acer Aladdin IV/V (M5229) Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0xc1 int a irq 0 on pci0.15.0
Probing for devices on PCI bus 1:
Probing for PnP devices:
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 on isa
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
atkbdc0 at 0x60-0x6f on motherboard
atkbd0 irq 1 on isa
psm0 not found
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
wdc0 not found at 0x1f0
wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa
wdc1: unit 0 (wd2): <IBM-ETUA-351111 ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !>
wd2: 173536MB (355401728 sectors), 4096 cyls, 272 heads, 319 S/T, 512 B/S
wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): <HITACHI CDR-7730/0008a>, removable, iordy
acd0: drive speed 689KB/sec, 128KB cache
acd0: supported read types: CD-DA
acd0: Audio: play, 128 volume levels
acd0: Mechanism: ejectable tray
acd0: Medium: CD-ROM unknown medium, unlocked
wt0 not found at 0x300
mcd0 not found at 0x300
matcdc0 not found at 0x230
scd0 not found at 0x230
ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 flags 0x40 on isa
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/7 bytes threshold
lpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <generic parallel i/o> on ppbus 0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0
ep0 not found at 0x300
vga0 at 0x3b0-0x3df maddr 0xa0000 msize 131072 on isa
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
changing root device to da0s1a
da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 4 lun 0
da0: <IBM DORS-32160 S82C> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 15), Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 2063MB (4226725 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 263C)
wd2: can't handle 272 heads from partition table (truncating to 16)
wd2: cannot handle 319 sectors (max 255)
wd2: wdcontrol: recal failed reading fsbn 0 (status 50<rdy,seekdone> error 0)
wd2: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0
Greetings,
rene <mailto:rene@xs4all.nl>
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