From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 5 10:33:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.xs4all.nl (smtp1.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F7B014BD0 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 10:33:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rene@xs4all.nl) Received: from innerpeace.outerheaven.net (innerpeace.outerheaven.net [194.109.23.210]) by smtp1.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA02649 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 19:33:50 +0100 (CET) From: rene@xs4all.nl Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 19:38:51 +0100 X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.35) S/N B56A3CE9 / Personal Reply-To: rene@xs4all.nl Organization: XS4ALL Internet B.V. Nederland X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <8818.991205@xs4all.nl> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: trying to format IDE disk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 error 0) Dec 6 02:28:56 router /kernel: wd2: wdcontrol: recal failed reading fsbn 0 (status 50 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 Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 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 real memory = 67043328 (65472K bytes) avail memory = 62296064 (60836K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02c7000. Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0: rev 0x04 on pci0.0.0 chip1: rev 0x04 on pci0.1.0 chip2: rev 0x00 on pci0.3.0 chip3: rev 0xc3 on pci0.7.0 ahc0: rev 0x00 int a irq 5 on pci0.10.0 ahc0: aic7880 Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs vga0: 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: 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): wd2: 173536MB (355401728 sectors), 4096 cyls, 272 heads, 319 S/T, 512 B/S wdc1: unit 1 (atapi): , 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: on ppbus 0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus 0 plip0: 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: 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 error 0) wd2: error reading primary partition table reading fsbn 0 Greetings, rene To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message