Re: clearing a drive
I've got a corrupted drive which i am unable now to clear. Whenever i try to fdisk it then relabel it i get an error that partition c does not cover the entire disk and that this might interfere with system utilities. I've tried: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=1 and various combinations thereof, without success. If I have any questions about whether the disk is usable, I usually go to the manufacturer's disk tools. Sometimes called a low level format, or disk diagnostic. Usually, they have a DOS based tool that you download from their website and it will be able to test and reformat the drive. _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
clearing a drive
Hi, I've got a corrupted drive which i am unable now to clear. Whenever i try to fdisk it then relabel it i get an error that partition c does not cover the entire disk and that this might interfere with system utilities. I've tried: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=1 and various combinations thereof, without success. Normally running sysinstall will work, but in this case it is saying an error occurred writing partition information to drive ad1, and not allowing me to proceed. This is on a 5.2.1 box. Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clearing a drive
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:11:54 -0400 dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a corrupted drive which i am unable now to clear. Whenever i try to fdisk it then relabel it i get an error that partition c does not cover the entire disk and that this might interfere with system utilities. I've tried: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=1 and various combinations thereof, without success. Normally running sysinstall will work, but in this case it is saying an error occurred writing partition information to drive ad1, and not allowing me to proceed. This is on a 5.2.1 box. No clue, but try the current mailing list and archive. Sounds like a hardware problem to me. Bad drive or the like. Still possible a bug in 5.2.1. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
