From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 09:16:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA10594 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 09:16:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from punt-2.mail.demon.net (punt-2d.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA10581 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 09:16:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etgate.etgate.co.uk ([193.195.0.231]) by punt-2.mail.demon.net id aa0516966; 10 Sep 97 16:58 BST Received: from leys.demon.co.uk by etgate.etgate.co.uk id aa11209; 10 Sep 97 16:58 +0100 Received: from lanthanum.theleys.cambs.sch.uk (lanthanum.theleys.cambs.sch.uk [10.0.1.57]) by hydrogen.theleys.cambs.sch.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA07687 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 16:59:26 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 17:02:45 +0100 (BST) From: "Dr R.D. Gidden" Subject: Adding a new SCSI disk To: questions Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 X-Organization: The Leys School, Cambridge, CB2 2AD, U.K. X-Mailer: ANT RISCOS Marcel [ver 1.08] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Following Greg Lehey's book 'Complete FreeBSD', I've scsiformat sd2 (got sd0 and sd1 already) It's now squawking about invalid primary partition table and floating point exception fdisk /dev/rsd2 and pid 7241 (fdisk), uid 0: exited on signal 8 and I can't get any other response. Other than panic / use as doorstop, what do I do now? Thanks! Bob. -- rdg@theleys.cambs.sch.uk