From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 01:07:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA21672 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 01:07:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aztec.co.za (aztec.co.za [196.7.70.131]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA21667 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 01:07:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pcmgate.pcm.co.za [196.3.254.241] by aztec.co.za with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #2) id m0uCiX7-000aobC; Fri, 26 Apr 96 10:05 EET Received: from IRVINEP5 (irvinep5.pcm.co.za [196.3.226.90]) by pcmgate.pcm.co.za (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA03369 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 10:06:57 +0200 Message-Id: <199604260806.KAA03369@pcmgate.pcm.co.za> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Irvine Short" Organization: Professional Computer Manufacturers To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 10:01:20 +2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Bad pack magic number Reply-to: ishort@pcm.co.za X-Confirm-Reading-To: ishort@pcm.co.za X-pmrqc: 1 Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.30) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What do I do about this? I followed Seppo Kalio's instructions about adding another disk and ran fdisk. The output I got from fdisk was this when I had finished: We haven't changed the partition table yet. This is your last chance. parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2337 heads=4 sectors/track=71 (284 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=2337 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Information from DOS bootblock is: 0: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 655360 (320 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 0; end: cyl 319/ sector 32/ head 63 1: 2: 3: Should we write new partition table? [n] y bash# disklabel -e -r sd1 Bad pack magic number (label is damaged, or pack is unlabeled) bash# I am using an Adaptec 1542B controller. This always gives 64 heads, 32 sectors, right? Where am I going wrong? Regards, Irvine Short http://www.pcm.co.za/homepage/ishort/irv_home.html Technical Support Professional Computer Manufacturers Cape Town, South Africa Tel: ++27-21-235084 Fax ++27-21-235089