Re: Simply impossible to format disk under current.

2003-02-19 Thread David Gilbert
> "phk" == phk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: phk> /dev/da2 is always writable unless you have any of the partitions phk> open. The error was that /dev/da2 didn't exist. I was confused too. fdisk da2 # worked, displyed one slice (3) that was NetBSD fdisk -I da2 # error, /dev/

Re: Simply impossible to format disk under current.

2003-02-19 Thread phk
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Gilbert writes: >I ran into an interesting problem last night ... that was very >frustrating. I was recycling SCSI drives from some NetBSD machines >(that were client boxes) to add to a RAID server running >FreeBSD-5.0-RELEASE. > >It's simply impossible to for

Simply impossible to format disk under current.

2003-02-19 Thread David Gilbert
I ran into an interesting problem last night ... that was very frustrating. I was recycling SCSI drives from some NetBSD machines (that were client boxes) to add to a RAID server running FreeBSD-5.0-RELEASE. It's simply impossible to format NetBSD drives under current. Let me expand on that. /d