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From: James Pancoast <jamesp@uversa.com>
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Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:11:58 -0400
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Subject: Problem formatting new hard drive.
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	I'm new to FreeBSD (I installed it on a system this weekend).  I've been 
trying to add a new Hard drive, following the directions at: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/x66.html

	Going through sysinstall didn't work, so I tried the command line 
(dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad2 count=2).  However, when I run that command (as 
root), I get "Operation not permitted".  Anyone have an idea what I'm doing 
wrong?

	The drive used to be in a Linux system, and an fdisk /dev/ad2 gives this:
******* Working on device /dev/ad2 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=25232 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=25232 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)

Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 131 (0x83),(Linux native)
    start 63, size 25433793 (12418 Meg), flag 0
        beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
        end: cyl 1023/ head 15/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>

	Thanks.


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James Pancoast
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