From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 6 13:04:23 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA22950 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:04:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cx757770-a.fed1.sdca.home.com (cx757770-a.fed1.sdca.home.com [24.0.167.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA22943 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:04:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daren@sefcik.cc) Received: from localhost (daren@localhost) by cx757770-a.fed1.sdca.home.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA04045; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:21:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:21:35 -0800 (PST) From: Daren Sefcik X-Sender: daren@cx757770-a.fed1.sdca.home.com To: Mikhail Teterin cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: low level format--howto?? In-Reply-To: <199902062058.PAA11390@kot.ne.mediaone.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > You are, probably, using a wrong device name. First, check the file > /var/run/dmesg.boot to find out exactly how the drive was found -- > what is the device number (da? something). >From dmesg.boot: (da0:adv0:0:1:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da0:adv0:0:1:0): MEDIUM ERROR asc:31,0 (da0:adv0:0:1:0): Medium format corrupted field replaceable unit: 9 (da0:adv0:0:1:0): fatal error, failed to attach to device (da0:adv0:0:1:0): lost device (da0:adv0:0:1:0): removing device entry It worked fine until I used newfs_msdos...then it was hosed. Daren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message