https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/partitionmagic-reports-errors-on-the-harddisk/m-p/3474949#M5272 You have put FreeBSD on your second disk and now you try to alter the partitioning of this disk, right?<BR /><BR />Are you sure that PartitionMagic understands partition type number used by FreeBSD? I bet you have a partition utility on FreeBSD. I'd try to use it on the disk to find out what type it is.<BR /> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:52:08 GMT Uwe Zessin 2005-01-31T13:52:08Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/partitionmagic-reports-errors-on-the-harddisk/m-p/3474948#M5271 hi<BR /><BR />If I try to check my second Harddisk with PartitionMagic 8, <BR />then I get following ERROR:<BR />(pls see the attachment)<BR /><BR />PartitionMagic could not repair this error ! <BR /><BR />On the second Harddisk I have freeBSD 5.3 already installed <BR />and I've tried to install linux SUSE in the freespace.<BR /><BR />Knows someone what's wrong and how to solve this problem ? <BR /><BR />kind regards<BR />chris Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:23:32 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/partitionmagic-reports-errors-on-the-harddisk/m-p/3474948#M5271 'chris' 2005-01-31T13:23:32Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/partitionmagic-reports-errors-on-the-harddisk/m-p/3474949#M5272 You have put FreeBSD on your second disk and now you try to alter the partitioning of this disk, right?<BR /><BR />Are you sure that PartitionMagic understands partition type number used by FreeBSD? I bet you have a partition utility on FreeBSD. I'd try to use it on the disk to find out what type it is.<BR /> Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:52:08 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/partitionmagic-reports-errors-on-the-harddisk/m-p/3474949#M5272 Uwe Zessin 2005-01-31T13:52:08Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/partitionmagic-reports-errors-on-the-harddisk/m-p/3474950#M5273 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR />"" Are you sure that PartitionMagic understands partition type number used by FreeBSD? ""<BR />------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR /><BR />YES !<BR /><BR />------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR />"" I bet you have a partition utility on FreeBSD. I'd try to use it on the disk to find out what type it is. ""<BR />------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR /> <BR />fdisk from freeBSD doesn't work and reports errors. <BR />even I cannot backup the MBR (saved before the problem occurred):<BR /><BR /># dd if=mbr.backup of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=1<BR />dd: /dev/ad1: Operation not permitted Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:05:22 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/partitionmagic-reports-errors-on-the-harddisk/m-p/3474950#M5273 'chris' 2005-01-31T14:05:22Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/partitionmagic-reports-errors-on-the-harddisk/m-p/3474951#M5274 Do you see anything useful when you try<BR /><BR /># disklabel ad1<BR /><BR />?? Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:04:03 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/partitionmagic-reports-errors-on-the-harddisk/m-p/3474951#M5274 Uwe Zessin 2005-01-31T15:04:03Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/partitionmagic-reports-errors-on-the-harddisk/m-p/3474952#M5275 thanks !<BR /><BR />I've saved freeBSD, formated the MBR, created and formated new partitions and installed again from the backup.<BR />Now it seems to work. Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:27:29 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/disk/partitionmagic-reports-errors-on-the-harddisk/m-p/3474952#M5275 'chris' 2005-01-31T15:27:29Z