Strange... fdisk wd1 reports:
# fdisk wd1
Disk: wd1 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 Sectors]
Offset: 0 Signature: 0x180
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
1: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused
When I create some partitions, write them to the disk, restart fdisk, I'm back
to the same empty config. Is my disk physically dead? :(
Xavier
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2008, Xavier Mertens wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> I'm trying to build a new FS on an IDE disk.
> All newfs commands end with:
>
> # newfs /dev/rwd1a
> ..
> ..
> newfs: cg 0: bad magic number
> newfs: fsinit1 failed
>
> Here is the disk info:
>
> # disklabel wd1
> # /dev/rwd1c:
> type: ESDI
> disk: ESDI/IDE disk
> label: Maxtor 6B250R0
> flags:
> bytes/sector: 512
> sectors/track: 63
> tracks/cylinder: 255
> sectors/cylinder: 16065
> cylinders: 30515
> total sectors: 490234752
> rpm: 3600
> interleave: 1
> trackskew: 0
> cylinderskew: 0
> headswitch: 0 # microseconds
> track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds
> drivedata: 0
>
> 16 partitions:
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
> a: 48195 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 16
> c: 490234752 0 unused 0 0
>
>
> (I tried several fs size (stard or end of the disk, same error)
>
> Any idea?
>
> Xavier
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