USB Drive not showing up correctly in 8.1 (works in 7.3)
Jerahmy Pocott
quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au
Sun Jan 16 20:29:39 UTC 2011
On 17/01/2011, at 5:59 AM, Steve Randall wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:00:01 -0700 (MST)
> Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, perryh at pluto.rain.com wrote:
>>
>>> Jerahmy Pocott <quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a USB Drive that was working fine under 7.3, but since
>>>> updating to 8.1 no longer has the correct /dev entries. Under
>>>> 7.3 it was da0s1, in 8.1 there is now only da0 and da0a, which
>>>> shouldn't exist...
>>
>> da0s1 is MBR, da0a is "dangerously dedicated". I would not expect
>> differences between 7 and 8 USB to show that on an existing drive. If
>> the drive was reworked during the 7-to-8 upgrade--maybe with "bsdlabel
>> auto"--that would be a more likely explanation.
>
> The actual explanation is the new geom partitioners introduced in 8.0.
>
> The disk has an MBR in block 0 and a forgotten BSD label (dangerously
> dedicated) in block 1. 8.x sensibly ignores one of them; unfortunately
> it ignores the MBR, not the unwanted BSD label.
>
> The solution is:
>
> # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 seek=1 count=1
Thank you, this does indeed correct the issue.
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