[ale] Strange drive (fdisk) output?

[James P. Kinney III]

Given the low cylinder count that is missing and the total failure of
the drive, I would surmise the boot sector has been destroyed.

It ma be possible to resurrect the bad drive if the maker supplies a
special "driver" disk that has low level format tools.

If not, start looking for the receipt and the warranty.

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 19:14 -0500, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Guys, I'm having some problems with a WD 120GB drive. I have 2 identical 
> drives in my fileserver, however, one of them is showing up differently 
> in fdisk.
> 
> Here's the output that I'm getting:
> 
> [root at fileserver ~]$ fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes <------ this drive works great!
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders <------ good # of cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 14593 117218241 83 Linux
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Disk /dev/hdb: 120.0 GB, 120000000000 bytes <------ problematic drive
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14589 cylinders <-------- bad # of cylinders???
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 1 2433 19543041 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb2 2434 7297 39070080 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb3 7298 12161 39070080 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb4 12162 14589 19502910 83 Linux
> 
> Both of these drives are identical hardware. The drive that is showing 
> 12000000000000 bytes is not working at all. I can't format partitions, 
> etc. Is it because the drive geometry isn't correct? Is there a way I 
> can correct the geometry on the drive so it reflects the working drive?
> 
> Thanks for any leads!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Chris Bergeron
> 
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