Re: [smartmontools-support] I'd like to fix read failure issue on Mac OS X

[Nathan S. T. <nat...@on...>]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 18:03:04 +0900, Kimio Miyamura wrote:
> $ sudo fdisk /dev/disk5
> Password:
> Disk: /dev/disk5	geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
> Signature: 0xAA55
>          Starting       Ending
>  #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  976773167] <Unknown ID>
>  2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused      
>  3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused      
>  4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused      
> 
> 
> Here, I got contradiction.  The LBA provided by short test is bigger
> than fdisk's sector size.  Also, with smratctl -a command, I got
> different LBA from short test result.

I'm not sure if this will actually resolve your LBA v.s. size problem,
but the id value of "EE" shown above indicates that this disk is using
GPT for partitioning, and thus probably the "gpt" command is what you
want to be using to see the layout of the actual partitions on that
disk....



							Nathan

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