Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:38:38 -0500 From: Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu> To: Julien Gabel <jpeg@thilelli.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, problem related to GEOM(4)? Message-ID: <407FFDFE.5000901@alumni.rice.edu> In-Reply-To: <50267.192.168.0.105.1082054761.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> References: <50267.192.168.0.105.1082054761.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net>
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On 4/15/2004 1:46 PM, Julien Gabel wrote: > Hello, > > I post to current@, since the problem *seems* to be related to GEOM. > > The first thread for this subject begin from question@, you can read it > here: > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-April/\ > thread.html#43212 > > I can resume my problem like that: > - My OS release is FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p4; > - The disk is a 120Go/8Mo from Maxtor (UDMA133); > - What dmesg(8) says about it: > # grep ad10 /var/run/dmesg.boot > GEOM: create disk ad10 dp=0xc6ab2660 > ad10: 117246MB <Maxtor 6Y120P0> [238216/16/63] at ata5-master UDMA133 > - But when I tried to create a slice on it, I get: > # fdisk -BI ad10 > ******* Working on device /dev/ad10 ******* > fdisk: can't write fdisk partition table: Operation not permitted Perhaps this is a silly question given the discussion of GEOM (of which I know nothing), but is it necessary to run this command in single-user mode? Jon Noack
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