From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 11 0:34:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B3D537B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 00:34:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.san.rr.com (smtp2.san.rr.com [24.25.195.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAD2143E42 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 00:34:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from 24-161-161-170.san.rr.com (24-161-161-170.san.rr.com [24.161.161.170]) by smtp2.san.rr.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g8B7YhI01402 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 00:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 00:34:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: root@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com To: FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: disklabel -W /dev/ad1 error Message-ID: <20020911003220.G2977-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG myprompt$ disklabel -W /dev/ad1 disklabel: ioctl DIOCWLABEL: Operation not supported by device HELP! I am preparing to newfs_msdos one maybe two partitions on an 8.4gb HD. I need to be able to get past these instructions so I can eventually: myprompt$ disklabel -R -r /dev/ad1 /tmp/disklabel.out myprompt$ disklabel -N /dev/ad1 myprompt$ newfs_msdos /dev/ad1 -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message