From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 08:38:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79AB216A4CE for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cmsrelay02.mx.net (cmsrelay02.mx.net [165.212.11.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DBA9343D48 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 08:38:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from cmsapps01.cms.usa.net (165.212.11.136) by cmsoutbound.mx.net with SMTP; 16 Apr 2004 15:38:45 -0000 Received: from optimator.noacks.org [66.139.21.136] by cmsapps01.cms.usa.net (ASMTP/noackjr@usa.net) via mtad (C8.MAIN.3.13N) with ESMTP id 434iDPPMQ0394M36; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:38:42 GMT X-USANET-Auth: 66.139.21.136 AUTH noackjr@usa.net optimator.noacks.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52CAE6165; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:38:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 46568-04; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:38:39 -0500 (CDT) Received: from alumni.rice.edu (optimator [192.168.1.11]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE87A610C; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:38:38 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <407FFDFE.5000901@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:38:38 -0500 From: Jon Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5+ (Windows/20040312) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Julien Gabel References: <50267.192.168.0.105.1082054761.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <50267.192.168.0.105.1082054761.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at noacks.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't *write* to a hard disk, problem related to GEOM(4)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:38:46 -0000 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 [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