Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-28 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: I did discover that an external card reader I was using on the Windows XP computer is defective. It had a bent pin and another recessed pin. I hope that is not what damaged these cards. Ouch. That sounds like a logical cause. Although the card itself has

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-28 Thread Robert
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:02:55 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: > > > Thanks for hanging in there with me. I am about ready to give up, > > but here is where everything stands now. > > Before giving up, a few more suggestions. First, check the BIOS > settings

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-28 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: Thanks for hanging in there with me. I am about ready to give up, but here is where everything stands now. Before giving up, a few more suggestions. First, check the BIOS settings. It's possible the computer has a BIOS that "protects" the boot block from

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-28 Thread Robert
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:07:57 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: > > > Some difference today. Not sure at what point this happened but one > > of my CF cards now reads: > > > > [robert@dell64] ~> fdisk /dev/da1 > > *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** > > p

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-26 Thread Fbsd8
Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: Some difference today. Not sure at what point this happened but one of my CF cards now reads: [robert@dell64] ~> fdisk /dev/da1 *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2057 head

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-26 Thread Fbsd8
Robert wrote: Ideally, I would like to change these cards to FAT32 but I cannot get there with fdisk and am not sure how to get there with gpart or if I can. You can get a small script that erases the primary GPT table from the front of the HD and the secondary GPT table from the end of the H

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-26 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: Some difference today. Not sure at what point this happened but one of my CF cards now reads: [robert@dell64] ~> fdisk /dev/da1 *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=2057 heads=255 sectors/track=6

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-26 Thread Robert
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:29:51 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 25 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: > > > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:45:37 -0700 (MST) > > Warren Block wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: > >> > >>> [robert@dell64] ~> sudo gpart destroy -F da1 > >>> da1 destroyed > >

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-25 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 25 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:45:37 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: [robert@dell64] ~> sudo gpart destroy -F da1 da1 destroyed [robert@dell64] ~> fdisk /dev/da1 *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** parameters extracted fr

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-25 Thread Robert
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:45:37 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: > > > [robert@dell64] ~> sudo gpart destroy -F da1 > > da1 destroyed > > > > [robert@dell64] ~> fdisk /dev/da1 > > *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** > > parameters extracted from in-core di

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found

2011-11-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert writes: > Greetings > > [robert@dell64] ~> uname -a > FreeBSD dell64.shasta204.local 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #34: Fri > Nov 18 06:43:01 PST 2011 > root@dell64.shasta204.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > I have two Lexar Professional 600X 16GB compact flash cards that are

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-24 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Robert wrote: [robert@dell64] ~> sudo gpart destroy -F da1 da1 destroyed [robert@dell64] ~> fdisk /dev/da1 *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=29 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) parameters to be us

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-24 Thread Robert
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:16:17 +0100 "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: > Hi, > Please keep this on list. > Hi Julian, I noticed soon after my response that I must have hit reply instead of all so I resent my information to questions@. This morning I didn't see my email to questions@ so I checked the arch

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-24 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Please keep this on list. Forwarded from: "Julian Stacey" http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/ --- Forwarded Message >From travelin...@cox.net Thu Nov 24 05:15:33 2011 From: Robert To: "Julian H. Stacey" Subject: Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found Message-ID: &

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found

2011-11-23 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 23 Nov 2011, Julian H. Stacey wrote: 2 Base of _my_ man fdisk " When running multi user, you cannot write unless you first run this: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 " But that's not quite correct. Setting debugflags to 16 allows writes to a partition that's mounted, something

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found

2011-11-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Carl Johnson > Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:53:41 -0800 > Message-id: <87bos2e9hm.fsf@oak.localnet> Carl Johnson wrote: > "Julian H. Stacey" writes: > > > > > @ suggestions: > > 1 Try > > bsdlabel -B -w -r /dev/da1 > > echo unplug, reinsert > >

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found

2011-11-23 Thread Carl Johnson
"Julian H. Stacey" writes: > > @ suggestions: > 1 Try > bsdlabel -B -w -r /dev/da1 > echo unplug, reinsert > newfs /dev/da1a > > 2 Base of _my_ man fdisk > " When running multi user, you cannot write unless you first run this: > sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 > " > > It

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found

2011-11-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Robert wrote: > Greetings > > [robert@dell64] ~> uname -a > FreeBSD dell64.shasta204.local 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #34: Fri > Nov 18 06:43:01 PST 2011 > root@dell64.shasta204.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > I have two Lexar Professional 600X 16GB compact flash cards that are