[haiku-development] Re: DriveSetup problem
- From: luroh <lurohh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 17:47:47 +0100
Christof Lutteroth wrote:
> I just installed Haiku on my Asus Zenbook UX31A and came across a problem
> when trying to format a partition with BFS. DriveSetup refused to format the
> partition and instead produced an error message:
> "The selected disk is read-only."
> But it was possible to format this partition using Haiku's mkfs.
I'm not an expert by any means but the symptom you describe would be
consistent with the behaviour seen when trying to format a GPT
partitioned disk.
DriveSetup does not yet support writing to such disks (although mkfs
and mkdos do).
Related: https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/8823
- luroh
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