Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-28 Thread Robert
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:07:57 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com 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 ***

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 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:02:55 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com 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

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)

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

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

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

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

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-25 Thread Robert
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:45:37 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com 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

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 wbl...@wonkity.com 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 ***

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

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

Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found (fwd)

2011-11-24 Thread Robert
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:16:17 +0100 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com 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

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