Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:07:15 -0500 From: Vulpes Velox <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: "dave" <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: clearing a drive Message-ID: <20040709190715.199fa2c3@vixen42.24-119-122-191.cpe.cableone.net> In-Reply-To: <000501c465e8$98fa6020$0200a8c0@satellite> References: <000501c465e8$98fa6020$0200a8c0@satellite>
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On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:11:54 -0400 "dave" <dmehler26@woh.rr.com> wrote: > Hi, > I've got a corrupted drive which i am unable now to clear. > Whenever i > try to fdisk it then relabel it i get an error that partition c does > not cover the entire disk and that this might interfere with system > utilities. I've tried: > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=1 > and various combinations thereof, without success. Normally running > sysinstall will work, but in this case it is saying an error > occurred writing partition information to drive ad1, and not > allowing me to proceed. > This is on a 5.2.1 box. No clue, but try the current mailing list and archive. Sounds like a hardware problem to me. Bad drive or the like. Still possible a bug in 5.2.1.
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