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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!uct.ac.za!quagga.ru.ac.za!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news-feed.iguide.com!delphi.com!usenet From: Jim Nelson <smartsignal@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Simutaneous mono and vga under FreeBSD... Date: Wed, 18 Sep 96 00:33:50 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 36 Message-ID: <pRBxTX2.smartsignal@delphi.com> References: <32388517.BA4@wsg.net> <3238632A.6516@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1e.delphi.com X-To: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> I followed your prescription, formatting, then "disklabel -r -w sd2 auto" which yielded several messages: sd2: invalid primary partition table: no magic Sep 16 08:46:42 r2d2 /kernel: sd2: invalid primary partition table: no magic Sep 16 08:46:42 r2d2 /kernel: sd2: invalid primary partition table: no magic then "newfs /dev/rsd2c" which yielded several similar messages: sd2: invalid primary partition table: no magic Sep 16 08:46:42 r2d2 /kernel: sd2: invalid primary partition table: no magic Sep 16 08:46:42 r2d2 /kernel: sd2: invalid primary partition table: no magic ... and the usual messages describing the number of sectors unallocated, superblock placement, etc.. when I mount sd2, "mount /dev/sd2c /jaz2", I get the "sd2: invalid primary partition table: no magic" message triad again. Anyway, it works: I can mount it and pour stuff in. When I boot the system, I have always received the following messages regarding the jaz drive. ... (ahc0:2:0): "iomega jaz 1GB H.62" type 0 removable SCSI 2 sd2(ahc0:2:0): Direct-Access sd2(ahc0:2:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:24,0 Invalid field in CDB sd2 could not mode sense (4). Using fictitious geometry 1021MB (2091050 512 byte sectors) ... Environment: bsd 2.1.5R, adaptec 2940uw, asus xp6np5 Are these the same behaviors which you see?