John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Ian Freislich wrote this message on Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 18:48 +0200: > > I've just tried this dd'ing /dev/zero over the front of the disk > > first to no avail (the probed geometry is the geometry that fdisk > > used anyway). I also tried your much loved ficticious geometry of > > 255H 64S and that didn't work. It's a RPITA. In the end I dangerously > > dedicated the disk and that works. > > One thing you might of been missing is making sure that the type in > the disklabel was set properly. For scsi, it must be SCSI, and for > IDE it must be IDE or ESDI. I had problems with this too.
I think all that stuff is no longer in the disklabel: [brane-dead] / # disklabel /dev/da0s1 # /dev/da0s1: 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 262144 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 32776 b: 1048576 262144 swap c: 8888924 0 unused 0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit e: 2097152 1310720 4.2BSD 1024 8192 46248 f: 5481052 3407872 4.2BSD 1024 8192 46248 Ian _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
