From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 19 13:11: 2 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 13:11:00 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.vdot.state.va.us (vdot.state.va.us [198.176.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5BC6237B402 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 13:11:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.30.191.225] by fw.vdot.state.va.us via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.18]) with SMTP; 19 Dec 2000 21:11:00 UT Received: by 501comailbh2.vdot.state.va.us with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) id ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:07:46 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Pieckiel, Kevin A" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: SCSI drive read-only? Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:13:09 -0500 Return-Receipt-To: "Pieckiel, Kevin A" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I installed FreeBSD 4.2 via FTP and used CVS to update, build, and install new binaries and a new (custom) kernel. The machine has an Adaptec 3950B SCSI card, one 4 GB IDE hard drive (boot and system drive), and five 18.3 GB IBM SCSI drives (for data, hot-swappable). This computer is to be our fileserver. Whenever I try to do anything that writes to the SCSI drives (/dev/da{0-4}) I get "OPERATION NOT PERMITTED" as an error message. I can read from the drive just fine using dd: dd if=/dev/da0 of=junkfile bs=1024 count=1024 But if I try anything to write to the drive, it fails. Any clue why? I'd appreciate your help. Kevin A. Pieckiel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message