>> >   fdisk: DIOCGINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>> > 
>> > do i feed it /dev/rwd0d instead?  /dev/rwd0c?
>> 
>> 'wd0' should be fine; fdisk will translate this to /dev/rwd0d which is
>> correct.
>The pit I usually fall in:
>Does a file named "wd0" exist in the current working directory? :-)
>It it does, fdisk will open that...

hmm...that may have been the case.  okay...so do i really wanna change
"our idea of what bios thinks"?  or does that not matter?

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