Hi, I'm very new to this list (and rather new to Debian).
I recently installed potato on two machines (a PC164 based Alpha and a Asus K7M based Athlon). While "fdisking" I get errors (or better: warnings) on both systems that I never saw before and I'd like to know how to avoid them (Yes, I was lazy and boot both systems from their installation kernels). Both systems have Symbios based SCSI controllers (Alpha: Intraserver ITI-3140U, Athlon: Tekram DC-390U2W) and I couldn't find a reason why my question could be specific to Alpha, so I decided not to to pollute the debian-alpha list with this stuff. O.k., here it goes: 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. And I *have* to reboot to make a new partition usable. If anyone has any hints to avoid this (some place in the archives I didn't find so far, other debian lists ...) please let me know. Regards, Stefan Schroepfer
