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From: "Brett Glass" <Brett_Glass@ccgate.infoworld.com>
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To: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Fdisk questions?
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> Does anyone have a clue on why this isn't working?  Is there some magic
> incantation I must do to get this to work.

Check the BIOS for an innocuous-looking setting called "virus protection."
If this fails, do a low-level format (assuming it's a SCSI disk).

--Brett