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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!platinum.sge.net!como.dpie.gov.au!news.gan.net.au!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!bulb.garlic.com!news.scruz.net!news.he.net!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Cannot correct disklabel Date: 27 Jun 1997 21:39:55 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <5p1bvb$rd6@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <33B368E4.41C67EA6@rockhead.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:43672 Paul Newhouse <newhouse~spam@rockhead.com> wrote: > I have a Western Digital Caviar 3.02GB IDE drive that I'm trying to > set up as the second disk in this system. The following disklabel is > apparently on the disk: Who put it there? Why are you so confident that it's wrong? > The "cylinders: 8427" is incorect, it should be 6136. This number is totally irrelevant. As are the ``sectors per track'' and ``tracks per cylinder'' values. > The "sectors/unit: 8495072" is incorrect, it should be 6186096. This number is relevant, and should match the number that's being announced during the device probe (or can be found in the data sheets), if BSD owns the entire disk. If BSD owns just a slice, this number should reflect the slice sice. > Anybody have any clues as to how to get the disklabel on the disk set to > the correct values? Trash it. But first, answer the above question why you are sure the label is actually wrong. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)