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Old 19th August 2010
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Originally Posted by Denzelii View Post
I have OpenBSD 4.5.
OpenBSD 4.5 is no longer officially supported as of May 2010. 4.7 is the current release.
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I bought a Kingston DataTraveler 101 Generation 2 (G2) pendrive, and tried to use format with fdisk, but i got this:

fdisk: DIOCGDINFO: Input/output error
fdisk: Can't get disk geometry, please use [-chs] to specify.

I gave -c 1024 -h 63 -s 32 and tried others geometry, but always gave Input/output error when used write in fdisk.
There was similar discussion on the official misc@ mailing list on this DIOCGDINFO ioctl over a year ago (when 4.5 had been released...). The developers have worked on a number of lower-level issues in the meantime. My recommendation would be to update to either 4.7 or install a snapshot of OpenBSD 4.8.

This is not a guarantee that a later version will fix the exact situation you describe, but reading through the discussion at that time, it was thorny, & resolution was not always obtained. Installing a newer version is a better bet, plus, 4.5 is no longer supported.
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