Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 17:12:26 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com> To: Gregory C Schohn <gcs@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fdisk won't work on new hard drives can't get Message-ID: <200009060012.RAA38525@pike.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96L.1000905200510.25345A-100000@unix11.andrew.cmu.edu> from Gregory C Schohn at "Sep 5, 2000 08:07:23 pm"
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Gregory C Schohn wrote: > hi - I've recently purchased 2 different 18GB scsi drives (a barracuda & a > cheetah, but the layout of the disks are identical). For the past month, > I've not been able to get partitions laid on them that FreeBSD is willing > to notice correctly (w/ disklabel & fdisk). First of all, make sure you have the latest fdisk. There were some bugs in it that have since been fixed. Secondly, what are you trying to accomplish exactly? If you are trying to blow away the existing mbr and start from scratch, try 'fdisk -I <disk>'. -- John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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