Re: Is it fdisk? (potato)

[scr <whoknows@onlinehome.de>]

kmself@ix.netcom.com schrieb:
> 
> on Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 12:03:47AM +0100, scr (whoknows@onlinehome.de) wrote:
> >
> > After creating a new partition, using the `w´ command
> > in fdisk I get following messages (I'm typing this
> > manually from a handwritten script ;-}
> >
> > Calling ioctl () ...
> > Device busy for revalidation (usage=3)
> > Re-read table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
> > Reboot your system to ensure the partition table is updated.
> 
> These are kernel, not fdisk, errors.  fdisk may be triggering them, but
> they're coming out of the kernel.
> 
> It would be helpful to know what kernel you're using.

Thanks for your answer.

On both systems (Alpha and ix86): 2.2.17. The kernel, that
is provided with the potato installation disks. On both
sym53c8xx feels responsible for the SCSI controller
(53c875 based on the Alpha and 53c895 based on ix86).

I will have to compile my own kernels and see what
happens.

Regards,
Stefan Schroepfer