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Date:      Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:10:49 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        Daniel Flickinger <attila@hun.org>, Patrick Hartling <patrick@137.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Lost disklabel
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211201509100.94714-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <p05200f07ba01c06e33bf@[128.113.24.47]>

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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




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