Subject: Re: VIA SATA problem
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>
List: current-users
Date: 06/22/2005 23:49:18
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.

Thanks 

Michal Suchanek