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From: Roger Kaputtnik <bsd@encephalon.de>
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Subject: Re: hw.ata.tags problem
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Hi.

> sysctl hw.ata.tags=1 (default is set to zero)
> sysctl: oid 'hw.ata.tags' is read only
> What the heck?

You are booting in single user mode (boot -s).
So your filesystem is just read-only.
Mount your filesyste, read-write.
Thats it.

Axel
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