Hi,

I've got a 75GB external hard disk. Its got an extended partition
covering the whole space, with two logical FAT32 partitions of ~30GB
each. All this was done through Windows. Through NetBSD I made two FFS
partitions and tried to newfs them. I get the following error message:

/dev/sd0g: 6997.0MB (14329916 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048
	using 38 cylinder groups of 184.14MB, 11785 blks, 23168 inodes.
super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
       32,   377152,   754272,  1131392,  1508512,  1885632,  2262752,  2639872,
  3016992,  3394112,  3771232,  4148352,  4525472,  4902592,  5279712,  5656832,
  6033952,  6411072,  6788192,  7165312,  7542432,  7919552,  8296672,  8673792,
  9050912,  9428032,  9805152, 10182272, 10559392, 10936512, 11313632, 11690752,
 12067872, 12444992, 12822112, 13199232, 13576352, 13953472,
wtfs: write error for sector 16: Read-only file system

What's that supposed to mean? I tried making one partition instead of
two, but I get the same error message.

I even tried making an ext2fs filesystem (thru NetBSD), but that too
gives some similar error -- only, there it was about sector 2 and
something about unable to write superblocks.

I checked the archives, all I could find was this post[1] by another
user, where he changed the block size to 8192 and fragment size to
1024. I didnt try that on my machine as its at home, and I am at work
now. While making a diskabel for this partition, I chose 16384 and
2048 coz that's the values with my other NetBSD partitions ("a" etc).

Any suggestions please? Is there any sysctl variable I have to tweak
to write to external hard disk partitions tables?

Thanks,
Rakhesh

[1] -- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.help/12952/

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