sysinstall's 'FDISK Partition Editor' won't let me create a second slice. After pressing 'w' it says: "ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad4!" then "Disk partition write returned an error status!"
Freshly cvsup'd a few hours ago. # sysctl -a | grep kern.version kern.version: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #2: Tue Feb 4 11:04:44 EST 2003 # fdisk ad4 ******* Working on device ad4 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=16708 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=16708 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 8388513 (4095 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 15/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED> -- :{ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message