On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 11:49:18PM +0200, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:41:25PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 09:27:57PM +0200, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote:
> > > 
> > > It is the only error seen in dmesg output. But newfs always complains:
> > > wfts: write error for sector 16: Read-only filesystem
> > 
> > This is a different issue. I guess you're trying to newfs a partition starting
> > at sector 0. The first few sectors of the disk are reserved for the
> > MBR partition table, disklabel, boot blocks, etc ...
> > Make the partition start at sector 32 for example.
> > 
> I do not think so. It has offset 63.

Well, I don't know what the problem is then. But is't not the drive
nor the IDE driver which returns "Read-only filesystem".

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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