>[You may get better responses if you send 2 seperate emails with one
>question in each]
I didnīt want to send TWO OT msgs :)))
>Did you use "dangerously dedicated" mode? I was able to get a booting,
>running system on this drive using "dangerously dedicated" mode.
Iīm booting off ad0. When fdisk of ad1 asked me about the MBR, I said
donīt touch it.
> > mfb1# fdisk -BI ad1
> > ******* Working on device /dev/ad1 *******
> > fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
>
>Odd ... What does fdisk with no parameters say?
it doesnīt find ad1s1e :
******* Working on device /dev/ad0 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=1216 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=1216 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 192717 (94 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ sector 1/ head 1;
end: cyl 11/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 2 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 192780, size 192780 (94 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 12/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 23/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 3 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 385560, size 9414090 (4596 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 24/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 609/ sector 63/ head 254
The data for partition 4 is:
sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 9799650, size 9414090 (4596 Meg), flag 0
beg: cyl 610/ sector 1/ head 0;
end: cyl 171/ sector 63/ head 254
and when I go back into /stand/sysintall fdisk, it shows me:
Disk name: ad1 FDISK Partition Editor
DISK Geometry: 16435 cyls/145 heads/63 sectors = 150133725 sectors (73307MB)
Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags
0 63 62 - 6 unused 0
63 150136497 150136559 ad1s1 3 freebsd 165 C
when earlier in the creation run, it showed me only one partition of 8000 meg
>If you need the system up immediately, you should probably use a
>different drive. If you can afford to struggle with it for a while, I
>would appreciate it if we could work together to figure out if there's
>something wrong with this model of drive.
Unfortunately, Iīm on a contract and canīt waste the client'money chasing
this if I canīt fix it pronto. pulling the drives is quicker and cheaper
thanks,
Len
>-Bill
>
>--
>If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,
>then what can I get for two hands in the bush?
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