From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 17 13:53:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA10207 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 13:53:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unix1.sncc.lsu.edu (unix1.sncc.lsu.edu [130.39.129.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA10197 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 13:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by unix1.sncc.lsu.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA271577; Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:00:21 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 11:00:21 -0500 From: jchatel@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu (John Thom Chatelain) Message-Id: <9709171600.AA271577@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: unfortunate displeasure Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear Help Desk, I have had the unfortunate displeasure of destroying my HDD file system and am in search of HELP! During the installation of FreeBSD 2.1.5 I reset my machine during disc partitioning. Right after the one selects the package to install (X- Developer was selected) I committed to a single partition (3 slices selected from auto) of the BSD file system on a Wester Digital (Model Caviar 2540) 540 M-Byte HDD (1048 Cyls 16 Hds 63 Spt). When "newfs" was executing the partitioning procedure I hit the F1, 2, & 4 keys sequentially (bone headed clumsiness on my part) and the system bell sounded and would not stop. Thinking things had gone wrong I reset the machine. The system rebooted CMOS found the drive and identified it correctly (Size 540 Cyls 1048 Hds 16 PreComp 65535 Landing 1047 Sec 63 Mode Normal) but the disk is unavailable (not found) to either DOS or FreeBSD Install. When the kernel boots the drive is found and I believe assigned as device (I have another Western Digital HDD and a CD ROM as Primary Master/Slave while the 540 is a Secondary Master). When I use the Fixit Floppy and execute "disklabel -r /dev/wd2" from the command line I get and input/output error but you can see the drive activity LED light up and hear the disk respond. I would like to fix this HDD problem and install FreeBSD alone on the WD Caviar 2540 HDD. Would you lend me your expertise or direct me to someone who will help me to fix this problem? If you need a more detailed blow by blow description of the events that transpired please ask. I will supply any information that is needed to get this problem resolved. Take care, John jchatel@unix1.sncc.lsu.edu PS: I am very much a novice UNIX user and need guidance in elementary terms. Machine: PCI Local Bus P552V2 Mainboard with and Intel 82430 VX PCIset and Intel P150 CPU from EPoX Computer Company, Inc.; Mitsumi FX 800 Series IDE CD-ROM drive; 16 M-Bytes of EDO Ram, Western Digital Caviar 2120 and 2540 IDE HDD's.