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Date:      Tue, 15 Feb 2005 10:03:01 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        "Xi.Liu" <Xi.Liu@Leitch.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Can not create slice on a SATA drive
Message-ID:  <20050215180301.GE38158@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <F5DF799F740CD611802200034722783C02549715@pelican.mars.leitch.com>
References:  <F5DF799F740CD611802200034722783C02549715@pelican.mars.leitch.com>

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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:47:13PM -0500, Xi.Liu wrote:
> I have Dell power edge S420 with only one SATA harddrive running FreeBSD
> 5.3-RELEASE for AMD64 platform and the system is running fine.
..
> I am trying to create a slice to use the all the rest unused disk space, but
> some how I can save the changes using "sysinstall" 
> (see error messages below)
..
>                  ??ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad4!  ?k

Boot single user and try to create the partition.  GEOM won't allow
writes to a disk after it has been mounted.

-- 
-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)



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