Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 12:51:53 -0700 From: Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com> To: Marauder <marauder@pi.avalonnetworks.us> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to write to drive Message-ID: <4835CED9.8090901@miralink.com> In-Reply-To: <48357420.5689.0089.0@pi.avalonnetworks.us> References: <48357420.5689.0089.0@pi.avalonnetworks.us>
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Marauder wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem that is driving me crazy. Hopefully I'm submitting this question to the correct place.
>
> My problem is... I have opened the drive /dev/ad0 with open("/dev/ad0", O_WRONLY) and it return's a valid file descriptor. The I attempt to write using the file descriptor returned. The write fails with errno=22 (EINVAL)
>
> I have attempted to first open /dev/io with READ/WRITE access to see if that help's. No luck
> I have attempted to lock the section of the drive I would like to write to with lockf. No luck
>
> If anybody has any idea's or suggestions I would greatly appreciate them.
>
> Thanx
>
>
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Is the disk /dev/ad0 in any kind of geom based device? That would keep
you from writing I think.
Also, have you tried "O_RDWR" as well?
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Sean Bruno
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