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Subject: Re: problem with "afd0: reading primary partition table: error
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yew chin <yutaka82@yahoo.com> writes:

> after a clean installation, i keep getting this error
> message and i just search a lot of web site but still
> couldn't figure out the problem.
> does anyone has any idea?

On FreeBSD 4.8, I assume.

The afd device is an ATAPI floppy disk, which is slightly unusual.  Do
you actually have one?