From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 18:58:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C1016A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:58:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-smtp-02-eri0.socal.rr.com (ms-smtp-02-qfe0.socal.rr.com [66.75.162.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3974A43D31 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:58:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com) Received: from ms-mss-01 ([10.10.4.12])i6KIwgXr019849 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:58:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from socal.rr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ms-mss-01.socal.rr.com (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I15004YFZDU9G@ms-mss-01.socal.rr.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:58:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.10.6.203] (Forwarded-For: [68.8.243.244]) by ms-mss-01.socal.rr.com (mshttpd); Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:58:42 -1000 Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:58:42 -1000 From: hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com To: Dinesh Nair Message-id: <164313316483d8.16483d81643133@socal.rr.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: changing card in a reader (revisited) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: hoe-waa@hawaii.rr.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:58:45 -0000 From: Dinesh Nair Date: Tuesday, July 20, 2004 7:44 am > > what does '/sbin/fdisk da2' say ? > > Regards, Aloha and Mahalo I do get something different displayed with fdisk. hp# mount_msdosfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt/olympus hp# /sbin/fdisk da2 ******* Working on device /dev/da2 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=7 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=7 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 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 1 (0x01),(Primary DOS with 12 bit FAT) start 25, size 15975 (7 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 10; end: cyl 249/ head 3/ sector 16 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: hp# umount /mnt/olympus hp# mount_msdosfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt/olympus mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2s1: Invalid argument hp# /sbin/fdisk da2 ******* Working on device /dev/da2 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=125 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=125 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 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 6 (0x06),(Primary 'big' DOS (>= 32MB)) start 47, size 255953 (124 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 16; end: cyl 499/ head 15/ sector 32 The data for partition 2 is: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: hp# Is it the "Primary 'big" that's messing me up? Robert