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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!nigel.msen.com!fmsrl7!lynx.unm.edu!umn.edu!noc.msc.net!uc.msc.edu!raistlin!timbuk.cray.com!hemlock.cray.com!willie From: willie@willow38.cray.com (William Lewis) Subject: Re: Ack! Ick! Ook! Argh! Message-ID: <1993Mar17.231431.11153@hemlock.cray.com> Originator: willie@willow38 Keywords: IDE, disklabel Lines: 38 Sender: willie@willow38 (William Lewis) Nntp-Posting-Host: willow38 Organization: Cray Research, Inc. References: <fcpA02Mq3aKZ01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 17 Mar 93 23:14:31 CST In article <fcpA02Mq3aKZ01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com>, jdg00@ccc.amdahl.com (Josh Grosse) writes: [stuff deleted] > the others are unused. And, it boots fine. Looking at the label > when I'm running partitioned, I see that the number of cylinders is > incorrect, rpm and interleave are 0, and there is one partition unused. > > I've looked at the FAQ and the BUGS at agate, and it appears that as I've > got an IDE drive, there MAY be various problems. I've not seen anything > that says those problems go away if you let 386BSD have the whole disk. > > Unfortunately, I still need my MS-DOS system, and I don't look forward > to several hours of backups and restores to switch between operating > systems. > > Would some kind and knowledgeable person please point me in the right > direction? Your assistance would be greatly appreciated. > > > > -- > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Josh Grosse jdg00@amail.amdahl.com > Amdahl Corp. 313-358-4440 > Southfield, Michigan I have the same problem with my second drive after reboots. What I do to recover without losing the drive is a disklabel -e -r and just change the corrupted fields. You might try this. Could someone let me know what's causing this? I've nearly got my system stable enough for my purposes, and this is the only major obstacle. Thanks, Willie -- Willie Lewis "Aaahhhhh! Aaahhhhh! Aaahhhhh!..." willie@cray.com Pink Floyd