Fw: Invalid fdisk partition table found

[Robert]

Just noticed that I did not include questions at . It has been a long day.

Begin forwarded message:

Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:21:54 -0800
From: Robert <traveling08 at cox.net>
To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs at berklix.com>
Subject: Re: Invalid fdisk partition table found


Julian and Warren thanks for the responses. 

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:08:00 +0100
"Julian H. Stacey" <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:

> Robert wrote:
> > Greetings
> > 
> > [robert at dell64] ~> uname -a
> > FreeBSD dell64.shasta204.local 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #34:
> > Fri Nov 18 06:43:01 PST 2011
> > root at dell64.shasta204.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64 
> > 
> > I have two Lexar Professional 600X 16GB compact flash cards that are
> > unusable. fdisk shows:
>
<clip>

> > Is there any way I can restore these CF cards to 16GB? Any help or
> > suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> @ suggestions:
> 1 Try
> 	bsdlabel -B -w -r /dev/da1

[robert at dell64] ~> sudo bsdlabel -B -w -r /dev/da1
Password:
[robert at dell64] ~> 


> 	echo unplug, reinsert

Not sure if you actually wanted me to unplug and reinsert the CF
card...so I did both
[robert at dell64] ~> echo unplug, reinsert
unplug, reinsert

and physically unplugged and reinserted the CF card

> 	newfs /dev/da1a
                      ^ ???

[robert at dell64] ~> sudo newfs /dev/da1a
newfs: /dev/da1a: could not find special device
[robert at dell64] ~> sudo newfs /dev/da1
/dev/da1: 29.5MB (60480 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
	using 4 cylinder groups of 7.39MB, 473 blks, 960 inodes.
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
 160, 15296, 30432, 45568
cg 0: bad magic number
[robert at 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 used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=29 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)

fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 32, size 59360 (28 Meg), flag 80 (active)
	beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
	end: cyl 28/ head 63/ sector 32
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>

No change from before.

> 
> 2 Base of _my_ man fdisk
> "     When running multi user, you cannot write unless you first run
> this: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16

I had failed to mention in the original post that I had seen something
in my searches about problems since 7.1. I had tried booting from an
old 6.2 disk and attempted all of this under "fixit" with no luck.

And also tried in single user mode.


Warren,
[robert at dell64] ~> sudo gpart destroy -F da1
gpart: geom 'da1': Invalid argument


[robert at dell64] ~> sudo gpart create -s GPT da1
da1 created

[robert at dell64] ~> sudo gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr da1
bootcode written to da1

[robert at dell64] ~> sudo gpart destroy -F da1
da1 destroyed

[robert at 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 used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=29 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl)

fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
    start 32, size 59360 (28 Meg), flag 80 (active)
	beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
	end: cyl 28/ head 63/ sector 32
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>

I see the flashing lights like it is writing to the CF card but nothing
changes. 

More suggestions welcome. These are quite expensive CF cards.

Thanks again
Robert