On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:57, Doug White wrote: > Try: > > . Zero off the first megabyte or so of the subdisks with dd or similar > tool. > . Force an array initialize from the controller BIOS. Wait for it to > finish. > . Install some other OS that recognizes the array, write the MBR and > partition table, then install FreeBSD over it. > > Some controller BIOSen have been known to peek at the DOS partition table, > and it may be jumping off into space if its seeing half a table from one > disk, or something like that. These actions should blow away any bogus > underlying data.
I can't try any of these things since I don't have any spare hard disks or much time :( The disks I have used have been fresh from the maker so they shouldn't have any trace of FreeBSD on them anyway. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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