From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 23 19:39: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340E537B6AD for ; Tue, 23 May 2000 19:38:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA40529; Tue, 23 May 2000 22:38:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:38:17 -0400 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Doug Silver Cc: dsilver@mail.quantified.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Second hard drive problems Message-ID: <20000523223817.B40441@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Reply-To: cjclark@home.com References: <20000523142642.B38825@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from dsilver@quantified.com on Tue, May 23, 2000 at 12:49:07PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 12:49:07PM -0700, Doug Silver wrote: > # fdisk wd1 > ******* Working on device /dev/rwd1 ******* > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=2112 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 > parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: > cylinders=2112 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) > > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found > 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 5,(Extended DOS) > start 3490185221, size 3493855237 (1705984 Meg), flag 5 > beg: cyl 975/ sector 32/ head 0; > end: cyl 975/ sector 40/ head 0 > The data for partition 2 is: > sysid 5,(Extended DOS) > start 90701829, size 7 (0 Meg), flag 5 > beg: cyl 464/ sector 16/ head 0; > end: cyl 464/ sector 24/ head 0 > The data for partition 3 is: > sysid 0,(unused) > start 70254592, size 835452928 (407936 Meg), flag 0 > beg: cyl 0/ sector 0/ head 0; > end: cyl 0/ sector 0/ head 0 > The data for partition 4 is: > sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) > start 1, size 2128895 (1039 Meg), flag 80 (active) > beg: cyl 0/ sector 2/ head 0; > end: cyl 63/ sector 63/ head 15 > > > So it sees the 4th partition, is there a way to get anything off of it? You should be able to access it like, # disklabel -r wd1s4 But you really should clean up those other entries. Any idea how the DOS MBR got scrambled like that? -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message