On Fri, 25 Nov 2011, Robert wrote:
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:45:37 -0700 (MST)
Warren Block <[email protected]> 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 disklabel are:
cylinders=29 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=29 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
The partition table was cleared.
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 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 32, size 59360 (28 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 28/ head 63/ sector 32
And it starts with a default table equal to the size of the drive.
Is it supposed to still show sysid 165 ?
I was under the impression that dd if=/dev/zero would clean out
everything including sector 1.
The partition table was cleared, that's why it said "invalid fdisk
partition table found". Rather than starting with an invalid table, it
created a valid default table in memory.
Do both cards report the same size?
Yes..sort of 28, 29 MB
If they weren't the same, I was going to suggest maybe they've been
heavily used and worn out. But I don't know if capacity shrinks as
blocks go bad and spares are used up, or if they just quit working.
And I'd expect them to be very different unless they had the exact same
usage, like in a mirror.
OT. The last 2 times that I have sent replies to two list regarding this
question, I have not seen it come through to me. Julian's relies as
well as yours come through.
Maybe spam or duplicate filtering.
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