From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 20 15:15:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A34337B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:15:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEBF643E3B for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:15:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org ([12.232.168.4]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021120231516.CZMW1052.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@InterJet.elischer.org>; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 23:15:16 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA95835; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:10:51 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:10:49 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Daniel Flickinger , Patrick Hartling , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lost disklabel In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 09:19:11AM -0600, Patrick Hartling wrote: > > > > but disklabel(8) won't even let me try to make a new one. If I > > > run 'disklabel -e da3s1', I get an error saying "ioctl DIOCGDINFO: > >> Inappropriate ioctl for device". Running 'disklabel -r da3s1' gives a > >> "bad magic pack number" error, which does not surprise me. > > > > > > This is a "dangerously dedicated" disk with a single BIOS partition As your disk is "dangerously dedicated, you need to access da3 instead of da3s1 in -current To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message