From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 22 8:39:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3693337B407 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 08:39:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id AC88816B16 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 17:39:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [195.115.185.184] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A85458610124; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 17:46:28 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010622173120.035c4658@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 17:40:25 +0200 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: 2nd ata drive, and resolv.conf options In-Reply-To: <3B3359A0.30669930@iowna.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010622153827.02fa0da0@mail.Go2France.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >[You may get better responses if you send 2 seperate emails with one >question in each] I didnīt want to send TWO OT msgs :))) >Did you use "dangerously dedicated" mode? I was able to get a booting, >running system on this drive using "dangerously dedicated" mode. Iīm booting off ad0. When fdisk of ad1 asked me about the MBR, I said donīt touch it. > > mfb1# fdisk -BI ad1 > > ******* Working on device /dev/ad1 ******* > > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found > >Odd ... What does fdisk with no parameters say? it doesnīt find ad1s1e : ******* Working on device /dev/ad0 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1216 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1216 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 192717 (94 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1; end: cyl 11/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 192780, size 192780 (94 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 12/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 23/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 3 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 385560, size 9414090 (4596 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 24/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 609/ sector 63/ head 254 The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 9799650, size 9414090 (4596 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 610/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 171/ sector 63/ head 254 and when I go back into /stand/sysintall fdisk, it shows me: Disk name: ad1 FDISK Partition Editor DISK Geometry: 16435 cyls/145 heads/63 sectors = 150133725 sectors (73307MB) Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags 0 63 62 - 6 unused 0 63 150136497 150136559 ad1s1 3 freebsd 165 C when earlier in the creation run, it showed me only one partition of 8000 meg >If you need the system up immediately, you should probably use a >different drive. If you can afford to struggle with it for a while, I >would appreciate it if we could work together to figure out if there's >something wrong with this model of drive. Unfortunately, Iīm on a contract and canīt waste the client'money chasing this if I canīt fix it pronto. pulling the drives is quicker and cheaper thanks, Len >-Bill > >-- >If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, >then what can I get for two hands in the bush? http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message