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From: nailers@teleport.com (Blake Swensen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Operation not supported by device
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 96 11:53:53 GMT
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A SCSI drive on my system failed so I replaced it with an identical drive 
after writing down all the disklabel and partition information.

After writing the FreeBSD slice using FreeBSD fdisk (which appears to have 
worked), and running disklabel, I get the error: disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: 
Operation not supported by device.

There are no DOS partitions on the drive... slice 0 starts at 0 and goes to 
the end of the drive. I want to create only one FreeBSD partition (e:) which 
encompasses the entire slice (yes, I know that I need c: and d:).

Any help?