Why is 'disklabel'ng a new drive so difficult?

[Marc G. Fournier]

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Just bought a new WD SATA drive: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB1 09.02E09

Tried to disklabel it, and it gives me all kinds of warnings when I look at it 
after running the disklabel:


ganymede# bsdlabel -w ad4s1 auto
ganymede# bsdlabel ad4s1c
# /dev/ad4s1c:
8 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize bps/cpg]
  a: 976767986       79    unused        0     0
  c: 976768002       63    unused        0     0         # "raw" part, don't 
edit
partition a: partition extends past end of unit
partition c: partition extends past end of unit
bsdlabel: partition c doesn't start at 0!
bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system 
utilities

Even if I try to use /stand/sysinstall to do the fdisk, the end result has 
'issues' ...

So, what is the generally accepted method of label'ng a new drive? :(

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