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Old 19th August 2010
Denzelii Denzelii is offline
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Hi guys. I need 5 post before I can put my question in a new thread.

I have OpenBSD 4.5. 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.

Why? How can use this pendrive? (my collage formatted to ext4 with fdsik in ubuntu, but I want to deploy an openBSD to it).
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Old 19th August 2010
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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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Old 3rd September 2010
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Thanks!

I tried with 4.7 but I have the same problem.
I will look with 4.8 later.
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Old 4th September 2010
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Do you really want to reformat the pen drive? Most come formated out of the box with msdos (aka vfat in linux) which can be mounted by BSD, Linux, Windows and Mac. If you want to make a bootable OpenBSD system on the pen drive there is some information in the FAQ,

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#flashmemLive

on the Web.

http://www.magooswisewords.com/Magoo...nbsd-usb-1.htm

One OpenBSD contributor has even made *.img files that can be dd directly to the pen Drive

http://liveusb-openbsd.sourceforge.net/

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