Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 12:26:50 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Glenn Johnson <gljohns@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: partition errors Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980302122356.19148B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199801150635.AAA00275@gforce.bellsouth.net>
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On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, Glenn Johnson wrote: > > > > > wd2s1: raw partition size != slice size > > > > > wd2s1: start 63, end 32255, size 32193 > > > > > wd2s1c: start 63, end 1056383, size 1056321 > > > > > wd2s1: truncating raw partition > > > > > wd2s1: rejecting partition in BSD label: it isn't entirely within the slice > > Hm, something must be miscalculating the gemoetry so badly that the > > disklabel numbers are out of bounds. Is there anything else on this disk? > > If not you might try dedicated mode. > I did try dedicated mode. That was my first choice. Then I tried > non-dedicated mode and that did not work either. The only way I could > get a successful newfs was to have a small DOS partition on the drive; > but then I got the error messages above. This is strange; the disklabel is not being written properly. I'd like to see theouptut of the following: dmesg fdisk wd2 disklabel /dev/rwd2s1 Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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