Problem formatting new hard drive.

[Elliot Finley]

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Elliot

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Pancoast" <jamesp at uversa.com>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 12:11 PM
Subject: Problem formatting new hard drive.


>
>
> I'm new to FreeBSD (I installed it on a system this weekend).  I've been
> trying to add a new Hard drive, following the directions at:
>
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/x66.htm
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>
> Going through sysinstall didn't work, so I tried the command line
> (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad2 count=2).  However, when I run that command
(as
> root), I get "Operation not permitted".  Anyone have an idea what I'm
doing
> wrong?
>
> The drive used to be in a Linux system, and an fdisk /dev/ad2 gives this:
> ******* Working on device /dev/ad2 *******
> parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> cylinders=25232 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=25232 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 131 (0x83),(Linux native)
>     start 63, size 25433793 (12418 Meg), flag 0
>         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>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> James Pancoast
> jamesp at uversa.com
> www.uversa.com
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