From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 14 6:53:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br (gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br [200.248.148.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7797037B43C for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 06:53:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (casantos@localhost) by gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA11094 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:57:11 GMT (envelope-from casantos@cpmet.ufpel.tche.br) X-Authentication-Warning: gate.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br: casantos owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:57:10 +0000 (GMT) From: Carlos A M dos Santos To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. I'm trying to install FreeBSD in an AMD K6II-500 system with a PC-100 motherboard (atapci0: ) and an old Quantum LPS420 hard disk (1010 cylinders, 16 heads, 51 sectors per track, operating in PIO mode 3, if it helps). During the installation process, I got an error when sysinstall tried to format the disk and create partitions. I inserted the fixit floppy disk and issued the following commands: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda1 count=2 # disklabel -Brw ad0 auto and got the message disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device I even tried with an old FreeBSD 3.3 install floppy set and got the same results. I'm sure the disk is not demaged because I could fill it with zeros with # dd if=/dev/zero bs=/dev/wd0 bs=417792 Moving the same disk to another machine with: atapci0: I could write a disk label without problems, but moving the disk back to the first machine I could not even read the label! Any help will be appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Carlos A. M. dos Santos Federal University of Pelotas Meteorological Research Center Av. Ildefonso Simoes Lopes 2791 Pelotas, RS, Brasil, CEP 96060-290 WWW: http://www.cpmet.ufpel.tche.br RENPAC (X.25): 153231641 Phone: +55 53 277-6767 FAX: +55 53 277-6722 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message