Read-Only disk Apon Partition

disown3d · 08-21-2006, 09:04 PM

when i try to partition my ide hd, useing both fdisk and cfdisk it tells me the disk is read-only... is this some setting i gotta config? the only thing i could think of *mind u ima noobie at linux* is i have my ide hd on the "slave" part of the ide cable, though i have the pin config set to master. ne idea what could cause this Read-Only problem?

mhurtz1 · 08-21-2006, 09:09 PM

Make sure you have write permissions to the drive.
This means you will most likely have to run fdisk as root.

disown3d · 08-21-2006, 09:43 PM

i AM running fdisk as root, i do this RIGHT after i login as root. And still i get the same thing :[

mhurtz1 · 08-21-2006, 10:04 PM

can you post the commands w/paramaters and output